ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,899, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Techniques for selecting skin-electrode interface modulation modes based on sensitivity requirements and providing adjustments at the skin-electrode interface to achieve desired sensitivity needs and systems and methods of use thereof" was invented by Eric VanWyk (Seattle), Filipp Demenschonok (Bothell, Wash.), Pinghung Wei (Kirkland, Wash.), Brendan Patrick Flynn (Redmond, Wash.) and Zidong Li (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, system, and method of reducing and controlling values of at least one characteristic (e...