ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,417, issued on March 3, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"EMG speech signal detection with feedback" was invented by Mark Kliger (Modiin-Macabim-Reut, Israel), Yaron Laufer (Brookline, Mass.), Meir Meshulam (Princeton, N.J.) and Assif Ziv (Beit Yitzhak-Sha'ar Hefer, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for performing EMG signal operations. The system accesses one or more blocks of EMG data that were generated based on a plurality of EMG channels of an EMG communication device based on one or more subthreshold activity (STA) of one or more muscles associated with speech production. Th...