ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,254, issued on July 15, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Activation and deactivation detection for a passive wearable metasurface using a segmented ground plane" was invented by Tejinder Singh (Manotick, Canada) and Navjot Kaur Khaira (Manotick, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein is directed towards a wearable device that includes a passive metasurface of unit cells with a segmented ground plane of electrically separated segments. When the wearable device is worn, e.g., as a ring or wristband that contacts the wearer's skin, the wearer's skin conductivity electrically connects ...