US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMINCONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on June 2 for "Optical fingerprint sensor with enhanced anti-counterfeiting features" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,349, issued on June 2, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMINCONDUCTOR 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 City, Taiwan), Kuo-Cheng Lee (Tainan City, Taiwan), Cheng-Ming Wu (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Wei-Li Hu (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fingerprint verification includes capturing a fingerprint image by an image sensing device. The image sensing device including a pixel array of a combination of sensing pixels configured to capture minutia points in...