Today, a patent application is published on USPTO which
describes finger sensor
having pixel sensing circuitry for coupling electrodes and pixel sensing traces
and related methods. This US patent application is filed by Apple Inc. in
January 2013. This is another
application in the list of Apple’s US application. There are already more than 3,000 patent application
is the name of “ Apple Inc.” at USPTO.
The patent
describes a technology in which a sensor is used to trace a person's finger and
fingerprint and determine, based on that, if they have proper credentials.
Apple's patent application doesn't go as far as including the security features
that might come with it on the software side, but it's clear what the
technology is designed to do.
So Apple’s Lover can wait.... May be they get this
new feature in future in iphone