US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on July 14 for "Multi-modal gesture sensing on wearable devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,585, issued on July 14, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Multi-modal gesture sensing on wearable devices" was invented by Patrick Muller Amihood (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Octavio Ponce Madrigal (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques include using, in addition to IMU signals, audio captured by one or more microphones on a wearable device to determine whether a gesture has been made, and if so, which gesture has been made. The IMUs provide a first electronic signal to processing circuitry on the wearable device in response to detected motion. The one or more microphones provide a second elect...