ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,606, issued on July 15, was assigned to KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

"Controlling devices using facial movements" was invented by Jurgen Kosel (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Abdullah Saud Almansouri (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling at least one device includes a pair of glasses having a glasses frame. A plurality of magnetic sensors, a processor coupled to the plurality of magnetic sensors, and a wireless communication transmitter coupled to the processor are arranged on or in the glasses frame. A plurality of magnetic skins tags are arranged on a ...