Apple has been granted a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a new fingerprint reading technology. The patent titled “Interactive display panel with IR diodes” was originally filed in 2014 and first spotted by AppleInsider. Continue reading “Apple’s latest patent hints at built-in fingerprint reader into iPhone display”
Fingerprint scanners have become a sort of defacto feature of most high-end and a few mid ranger smartphones. They offer a good way to secure your device as well as a faster method of authentication to bypass the lockscreen or grant permissions and passwords. In 2015 itself, we have seen quite a number of different smartphones with different implementations of the fingerprint scanner.
