ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,956, issued on June 2, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"On-body sensor system and method for automatic interpretation of visual body signals" was invented by Ashutosh Dhekne (Atlanta), Mostafa H. Ammar (Atlanta) and Yifeng Cao (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary system and method are disclosed for capturing visual body signals using distance measurements among different parts of the body and for providing classification for them. The exemplary system and method can be employed to generate the classification and provide a second source of communication of the classification to supplement the visu...