“In July Patently Apple posted a report revealing one of the patent applications that Apple gained in their acquisition of AuthenTec,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple. “Today, Patently Apple reveals a second patent application that Apple gained in their acquisition that was filed in Europe.”
“There were a few interesting findings in this patent,” Purcher reports. ” One of them reveals that Apple’s future fingerprint scanner has a security feature built-in that will be able to sense ‘live tissue’ so as to reduce spoofing.”
MacDailyNews Take: Aww, no carrying around a dead severed hand à la True Blood.
Purcher reports, “One of Apple’s last patent filings on this subject matter revealed that a fingerprint scanner could also be hidden within a future MacBook or an iDevice bezel. Apple appears to be covering every conceivable angle relating to a future fingerprint scanner.”
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