Showing posts with label fingerprints. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fingerprints. Show all posts

Friday, October 12, 2012

Apple Patents To Use Fingerprints to Unlock iPhone



Apple has just filed a patent for technology that uses a new biometric
unlocking mechanism on future Apple products.  Apple has filed the patent that comes just a few months after they bought security technology company AuthenTec for $356 million over the summer.

According to the sources Apple has signed a deal with Sydney, Australia-based Microlatch to develop NFC apps using its fingerprint authentication tech. Today, we get a look at some possible areas Apple might be exploring with the technology thanks to a patent application published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and detailed by Patently Apple.