ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,540, issued on Sept. 15.

"Systems and methods for improving autocorrect accuracy by fusing keystroke input with real-time lip-movement cues and optional whisper-level audio" was invented by Andre Persidsky (Mill Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A text-entry correction system improves autocorrect accuracy by combining typed input with mouth-region visual evidence and, optionally, whisper-level audio evidence. A typed string is processed through an autocorrect or spell-correction pipeline to obtain or generate candidate text strings. Lip-movement evidence captured by an imaging sensor during or in association with text en...