ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,572, issued on July 14, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and Chongqing University (Chongqing, China).
"Method and wearable device for detecting and verbalizing nonverbal communication" was invented by Jun Chen (Los Angeles), Jin Yang (Chongqing, China) and Zhihao Zhou (Chongqing, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A triboelectric sensor device with a substantially cylindrical nonconductive core, and a conductive fiber substantially helically disposed around the conductive core and in an axial direction thereof. Example implementations also include a method of extracting communication fro...