US Patent Issued to TOUCH BIOMETRIX on June 3 for "Biometric skin contact sensor and methods of operating a biometric skin contact sensor" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,203, issued on June 3, was assigned to TOUCH BIOMETRIX Ltd. (St Asaph, Great Britain).

"Biometric skin contact sensor and methods of operating a biometric skin contact sensor" was invented by Henricus Derckx (St Asaph, Great Britain), Michael Cowin (St Asaph, Great Britain), Wilhelmus Van Lier (St Asaph, Great Britain) and Toru Sakai (St Asaph, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitive biometric skin contact sensor configured to resolve the contours of skin in contact with the sensor, wherein the sensor comprises: an array of sensor pixels, wherein each sensor pixel comprises a thin film transistor and a capacitive sen...