ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,977, issued on May 26, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Configuration of an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor relative to a display of a device" was invented by Jessica Liu Strohmann (Cupertino, Calif.), Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh (Cupertino, Calif.), Yipeng Lu (Moraga, Calif.), Chin-Jen Tseng (Fremont, Calif.) and Kostadin Dimitrov Djordjev (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to ultrasonic fingerprint sensor. In some aspects, a device may include a flexible display. The device may include an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor that is configured to transm...