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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2011
Robert H. Bond, Plano, TX (US);
Giovanni Gozzini, Berkeley, CA (US);
Robert H. Bond, Plano, TX (US);
Giovanni Gozzini, Berkeley, CA (US);
Authentec, Inc., Melbourne, FL (US);
Abstract
An electronic device may include a housing and circuitry carried by the housing. The electronic device may also include a finger sensing device carried by the housing and coupled to the circuitry. The finger sensing device may include a mounting substrate, and a semiconductor interposer having a lower surface adjacent the mounting substrate. The finger sensing device may also include a plurality of semiconductor finger sensing die on an upper surface of the semiconductor interposer in side-by-side and abutting relation, and defining a finger sensing surface to receive at least one finger thereon.