Your next MacBook could have a Touch ID fingerprint scanner

Apple may finally be ready to introduce its Touch ID fingerprint sensor to the MacBook — more than two years after it made its first appearance on the iPhone 5s.

A new patent published yesterday describes a “Finger sensing apparatus using hybrid matching and associated methods,” and depicts an embedded Touch ID sensor on a laptop, although apparently, it also leaves to the door open for the same technology to be featured on an iMac keyboard.

The biometric technology has been a huge success on Apple’s iOS devices, and was recently upgraded to an even faster and more reliable version on the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus.

According to Patently Apple, the paperwork for the Mac-based Touch ID was actually filed way back in September 2007, although it is only now that the patent has been published.

Why only now? Could it have anything to do with Microsoft's new Surface Pro 4, which includes a fingerprint scanner on one of its keyboard options?

Source: Patently Apple