Patents by Inventor Frank Frederick Weckerle

Frank Frederick Weckerle has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Display-integrated user-classification, security and fingerprint system
    Patent number: 10116868
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus related to biometric authentication of a user of an electronic device. An electronic display has a display cover glass with a front surface that includes a viewing area, and a fingerprint reading area within the viewing area. At least one photosensing element is configured to detect received scattered light, the received scattered light resulting from interaction of light with an object in at least partial optical contact with the front surface within the fingerprint reading area and to output, to a processor, fingerprint image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: John Michael Wyrwas, Safi Khan, Evgeni Petrovich Gousev, Russell Wayne Gruhlke, Ying Zhou, Frank Frederick Weckerle
  • DISPLAY-INTEGRATED USER-CLASSIFICATION, SECURITY AND FINGERPRINT SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20150310251
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus related to biometric authentication of a user of an electronic device. An electronic display has a display cover glass with a front surface that includes a viewing area, and a fingerprint reading area within the viewing area. At least one photosensing element is configured to detect received scattered light, the received scattered light resulting from interaction of light with an object in at least partial optical contact with the front surface within the fingerprint reading area and to output, to a processor, fingerprint image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: John Michael Wyrwas, Safi U. Khan, Evgeni Petrovich Gousev, Russell Wayne Gruhlke, Ying Zhou, Frank Frederick Weckerle