US Patent Issued to ETH ZURICH on April 7 for "Wearable device for finger identification upon contact on a surface" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,438, issued on April 7, was assigned to ETH ZURICH (Zurich).

"Wearable device for finger identification upon contact on a surface" was invented by Christian Holz (Zurich, Switzerland), Manuel Meier (Wettingen, Switzerland), Paul Streli (Zurich, Switzerland) and Andreas Fender (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to wearable device (1) adapted to detect contacts of fingers (F) on a surface (S), and to identify the responsible finger. It comprises move sensors adapted to collect the vibrations resulting from the contact of the fingers on a surface. It comprises a memory comprising reference ...