US Patent Issued to Snap on May 19 for "Human-machine interaction using EMG speech signals" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,112, issued on May 19, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Human-machine interaction using EMG speech signals" was invented by Tal Pais (Tel Aviv, Israel), Mark Kliger (Modiin-Macabim-Reut, Israel), 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: "Methods and systems are disclosed for triggering operations using inner speech. The system detects presence of inner speech in electromyograph (EMG) data. The system adjusts a progress indicator in response to detecting the presence of inner speech. The system determines that a current value of the progress indicat...