ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,167, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Real-time in-ear electroencephalography signal verification" was invented by Maansi Desai (Redmond, Wash.), Antje Ihlefeld (Redmond, Wash.), Morteza Khaleghimeybodi (Bothell, Wash.), Srinivas Kota (Redmond, Wash.) and Nava K. Balsam (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A real-time in-ear EEG signal verification system. The system includes an in-ear device (IED) configured to be placed within an ear canal of a user and a controller. The IED includes a speaker configured to present a calibration audio signal to the user, the cal...