US Patent Issued to Snap on Oct. 27 for "Speech signal detection device" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,334, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Speech signal detection device" was invented by Shimon Hayun (Rosh HaAyin, 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 collecting EMG speech signals using a speech signal detection device. The methods and systems collect a combination of signals comprising electromyograph (EMG) data signals and one or more non-EMG data signals. The methods and systems process the combination of signals by a machine learning (ML) model to detect inner speech of the...