This patent indicates that Microsoft would have also opted to integrate the fingerprint reader under the screen

If you are up-to-date with current technology these days, you will know that one of the biggest struggles that manufacturers have when it comes to bringing an impressive mobile to the market is that of reduce the frames of the screens: sides and upper and lower Something achieved by Samsung to a large extent with the Galaxy S and Note range, perhaps surpassed by Xiaomi with the Mi Mix 2 and waiting for what Apple does in an hour with your iPhone.

A fight without quarter that nevertheless has a victim such as the fingerprint reader.An advantage that many of us have become accustomed to and that generates ease of use and security. We have used it in front and behind (with great success in Huawei and not so much in Samsung). But the truth is that in the front area their days are numbered as they lose the battle against all-screen mobile phones

This causes brands to study alternatives and one that we have been hearing about for a long time is the one that places these sensors under the panels. A solution that is not yet mature because neither Samsung with the Galaxy S8 and S8+, LG with the V30 and everything seems that Apple, with the iPhone they present, have chosen to use it. It seems there are still performance issues.

The fingerprint reader continues to offer features not yet matched by iris scanner or facial unlocking

Thus the manufacturers are having many headaches to be able to integrate it into their new designs and they are studying how to carry it out.And although at Microsoft they don't have their own terminals on the market, they continue to work on solutions (who knows if for the immediate future) that can bring improvements.

In this sense, and thanks to Twitter user @WalkingCat, it has now been discovered that from Redmond they have been working on a patent based on the use of a fingerprint sensor with which to unlock our device and that would be located below the screen

A patent in which, judging by the images (it's from 2016), phones with very thin, almost invisible frames already had a leading role(despite the fact that they do not have new phones in the catalog). A solution that included the use of different methods to integrate it, such as an ultrasonic reader or cameras with fingerprint recognition.

If this type of solution will finally become a reality, we don't know, because everything depends on making them functional and practicalIt would also be, and on the other hand, good news, since it would mean that they could arrive integrated into new terminals with the Microsoft seal. The alternative, in the case of facial unlocking or the iris scanner]() seems to have not yet reached the level of effectiveness and comfort of the fingerprint reader.

Source | ONMsft In XatakaWindows | Are you looking for security in your team? You can now buy the Microsoft Modern Keyboard with a fingerprint reader, although only in the United States