ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,325, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatuses for low latency body state prediction based on neuromuscular data" was invented by Nadine Hussami (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Patrick William John Kaifosh (New York), Alexandre Barachant (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Daniel Wetmore (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed method may include receiving neuromuscular activity data over a first time series from a first sensor on a wearable device donned by a user receiving ground truth data over a second time series from a second sensor that indicates a body part state ...