US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 24 for "False wakeup reduction for fingerprint sensors" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,322, issued on March 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"False wakeup reduction for fingerprint sensors" was invented by Mohamed Ahmed (San Marcos, Calif.), Sandeep Louis D'Souza (San Diego), Syed Fawad Ahmad (Escondido, Calif.), Jeffrey Osbeli Franco (Los Angeles), Wei He (Pudong, China) and Suhail Jalil (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus (101) includes a fingerprint sensor (102) including a wakeup sensor portion (202) and a transmitter portion (207). The wakeup sensor portion (202) may be configured to send an activation signal (204) to the transmitter portion (207) due to a contact indication, corr...