ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,777, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Facense Ltd. (Kiryat Tivon, Israel).

"Controlling reading of a head-mounted sensor according to facial expressions" was invented by Gil Thieberger (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Ari M Frank (Haifa, Israel) and Tal Thieberger-Navon (Kiryat Tivon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for tracking facial expressions efficiently. In one embodiment, a system includes a non-contact head-mounted electro-optical sensor (e.g., an inward-facing head-mounted camera), which measures reflections from a region on a user's head, which are indicative of facial expressions of th...