US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 17 for "Skin detection using voltage representations of frequencies" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,794, issued on March 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Skin detection using voltage representations of frequencies" was invented by Jouya Jadidian (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Mohammad Mustafa Malik (Snoqualmie, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable device comprises an exteriorly positioned first electrode and a reporting capacitor. The first electrode forms a first side of the reporting capacitor, and a second side of the reporting capacitor is formed by skin of a user when the wearable device is worn. An oscillator is configured to output a signal to drive the first electrode at a first...