ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,934, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Techniques for neuromuscular-signal-based detection of in-air hand gestures for text production and modification, and systems, wearable devices, and methods for using these techniques" was invented by Ian Sebastian Murphy Bicking (Minneapolis), Austin Ha (Flushing, N.Y.) and Adam Berenzweig (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for producing and modifying text using neuromuscular-signal-sensing devices. In one aspect, a method includes causing the display of...