W540 - Fingerprint reader stops working after sleep

Once again the fingerprint reader stopped working.
When I run the Lenovo Solution Center (v2.7.003 rev 19975) all appears normal. When I go to [Security]>[Fingerprint] I get a <Status> that it is enabled.
However when I [launch] > Fingerprint Manager Pro (v8.01.35 x64) I get the device is not connected.
See the pictures.
This occurred after coming out of sleep, and warm boot or cold boot did not change anything. It's now been 3 days. I have no idea what the hardware is doing as there are no lights. I did not install any new software, aside from the normal AV updates (MS Security and Malwarebytes ONLY! each aware of the other).
Administrative event logs do not reveal anything.
Device manager has no warning, neither does it show the fingerprint reader.
Scanning does nothing,
Any workaround ??? Any one else with these symptoms. I can deal with software, and drivers, but I cannot deal with failure to have hardware switches, lights, and other missing workstation attributes.
re: Lenovo W540 20BG, 32gb, Win 7 x64, BIOS 2.17, Samsung 1tb EVO

It's an on / off issue. Partly software and hardware. I think it a USB / reader problem. Only occurs occasionally when going to sleep. I do use Zentimo, so that may cause a disconnect when sleeping or at the very least let me know that a disconnect occured. I just type my user PW, as the reader's surrounding surface is now glossy, Never had that problem with other high gloss chassis. Oddly the track pad is immaculate and not shiny!
Reader resumes - in most cases - after cold boot with power off for a while. If I do a warm boot, the reader remains innactive and disconnected.
So far the machine from a software side is tamed and works great, it the harware interface with the internals that is a POS.
If the machine works great, it's because of Intel, nVidia, Micron, etc. The user dialog to the hardware is missing when PROBLEMS (not issues) occur.
Thank you for your concern. Hopefully these issues will be resolved after my yearly update. Albeit, Win 10 concerns me <vbg>. I think MS Win 10 will go the Adobe route, with a yearly subscription after the free 1 year.

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