ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,926, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Tactual Labs Co. (New York).

"Capactive based mechanomyography" was invented by David Holman (Toronto), Valkyrie Savage (Toronto), Kevin Stager (Austin, Texas), Faizan Haque (Mississauga, Canada), Yanjun Jiang (Toronto) and Steven Sanders (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor system for determining activity of muscles. A plurality of receiving antennas are located on a wearable located proximate to a user skin's surface. A transmitting antenna is located at a location proximate to a user's skin. The transmitting antenna transmits infuses a signal to a user. Measurements of the inf...