US Patent Issued to ELBAWARE on Nov. 18 for "Device, system and method for determining face touching" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,001, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ELBAWARE LTD (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Device, system and method for determining face touching" was invented by Adrian Chun Hoow Ng (Auckland, New Zealand), Anthony Ronald John Phillips (Auckland, New Zealand) and Bruce Mackenzie Stokes (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a wearable device and/or system for determining one or more of potential, imminent and actual touching of a user's face by the user's hand. The wearable device may comprise two sensors. The sensors may be configured to sense parameters indicative of the position and/or orientation of the use...