Apple lastly granted 2007 patent on Contact ID sensor in Macs (with hilariously previous picture) GL-NEWS

Whereas Apple might have waited for the iPhone 5s earlier than it launched Touch ID, it’s been engaged on the expertise since shortly after the launch of the unique iPhone. A patent first filed in 2007 was lastly granted immediately, and consists of using a fingerprint sensor in laptops – although the drawing Apple used for instance the idea seemingly dates again even additional than 2007!

A finger sensing equipment might embody a finger sensor together with an built-in circuit (IC) substrate, an array of finger sensing components on the IC substrate, and match circuitry on the IC substrate for performing closing finger matching. […] FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an digital machine within the type of a laptop computer pc together with a finger sensor and enhanced safety in accordance with the current invention.

The patent additionally covers use in desktop computer systems, aka the iMac immediately, embedding the sensor into the keyboard … 

The pc 10 is illustratively proven to be a laptop computer pc, however the current invention is relevant to different computer systems (e.g. desktop computer systems) as properly.

It might after all be no shock for Apple so as to add a Contact ID sensor to future MacBooks and keyboards after making the safety system normal in iPhones and iPads. We haven’t but seen any signal of this, nonetheless, with Apple having handed up a chance so as to add Contact ID to the new Magic Keyboard.

By way of Patently Apple

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