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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2017
Applicant:
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Spring, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/32 (2013.01); G06F 21/46 (2013.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/32 (2013.01); G06F 21/46 (2013.01); G06F 21/602 (2013.01); G06F 1/1679 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system may include a fingerprint scanner and a magnetic switch coupled to the fingerprint scanner. The magnetic switch may couple a lid of a computing device to abase of a computing device. The system may further include an infrared (IR) scanner coupled to the magnetic switch. Additionally, the system may include an electronic switch coupled to the IR scanner.