US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Nov. 25 for "Inferring user pose using optical data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,113, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Inferring user pose using optical data" was invented by Haowen Ruan (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Francesco Marsili (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tracking device monitors a portion of a user's skin to infer a pose or gesture made by a body part of a user that engages the portion of the user's skin as the pose or gesture is made. For example, the tracking device monitors a portion of skin on a user's forearm to infer a pose or gesture made by the user's hand. The tracking device may include an illumination source that illu...