US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 29 for "Inertial sensing of tongue gestures" (Washington, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,040, issued on July 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Inertial sensing of tongue gestures" was invented by Raymond Michael Winters IV (Seattle), Tan Gemicioglu (Atlanta), Thomas Matthew Gable (Seattle), Yu-Te Wang (Redmond, Wash.) and Ivan Jelev Tashev (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document relates to employing tongue gestures to control a computing device, and training machine learning models to detect tongue gestures. One example relates to a method or technique that can include receiving one or more motion signals from an inertial sensor. The method or technique can al...