US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on April 15 for "Optical fingerprint sensor with enhanced anti-counterfeiting features" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,795, issued on April 15, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Optical fingerprint sensor with enhanced anti-counterfeiting features" was invented by Feng-Chien Hsieh (Pingtung County, Taiwan), Yun-Wei Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan), Kuo-Cheng Lee (Tainan, Taiwan), Cheng-Ming Wu (Tainan, Taiwan) and Wei-Li Hu (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensing apparatus is disclosed. The image sensing apparatus includes a pixel array and micro lenses disposed above the pixel array. The pixel array includes sensing pixels configured to capture minutia points of a fingerprint and position...