US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms on Feb. 24 for "Preventing false process execution responsive to received touch input" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,032, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Preventing false process execution responsive to received touch input" was invented by Rongzhou Shen (Kirkland, Wash.), Amy Lawson Bearman (Emerald Hills, Calif.), Shijun Sun (Redmond, Wash.), Qian Fang (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Riza Kazemi (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving touch inputs from a user corresponding to an activation trigger for an assistant system executing on a head-mounted device at the head-mounted device, accessing signals from inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensors of the...