ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,936, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to HTC Corp. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Wearable device and communication method for enhancing detection accuracy" was invented by Chun-Yih Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Ta-Chun Pu (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Yen-Liang Kuo (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable device includes a light modulator, a light source, a light waveguide, a light sensor, a processor, and a carrier element. The light modulator receives a human electric field. The light source generates a light communication signal. The light waveguide is adjacent to the light modulator. The light waveguide is configured to transmit the light c...