ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,087, issued on April 14, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).
"Voice recognition using accelerometers for sensing bone conduction" was invented by Enrico Rosario Alessi (Catania, Italy), Fabio Passaniti (Syracuse, Italy) and Nunziata Ivana Guarneri (Caltanissetta, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Voice command recognition and natural language recognition are carried out using an accelerometer that senses signals from the vibrations of one or more bones of a user and receives no audio input. Since word recognition is made possible using solely the signal from the accelerometer from a person's bone co...