There are a lot of Apple patents that don’t mean that the company will implement everything it files. The USPTO lately granted another patent to Apple where the iPhone giant is working on Touch ID syncing over iCloud. The document mentions the possibility to sync user’s fingerprints to secondary gadgets via iCloud. According to the idea, users of the iDevices might have to verify their Apple ID data in order to have their fingerprint image being accepted by Touch ID. The information is to be encrypted, and once it is uploaded to the cloud it can be passed on to a different iOS smartphone or tablet that is linked to user’s Apple account. Of course, it won’t happen as simple as it sounds. The iOS giant will have to collect the fingerprint from the secondary device that must match the original biometric data and user’s original fingerprint. Then such data can be shared via Bluetooth or NFC through the encryption. Apple’s new patent works along with Apple Pay service. As the company describes it, users who wish to buy something using the iOS mobile payment system can use the fingerprint data that is stored in iCloud. This might happen only if the sale terminal includes the fingerprint scanner and is capable of processing user’s ‘to-be matched’ fingerprint through Bluetooth / NFC without Internet. The iPhone maker gives its new patent that was filed in the summer of 2013 a long name. If you are curious, it goes as ‘Finger biometric sensor data synchronization via a cloud computing device and related methods.’ Would you like such a feature to become real in the future?