ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,636, issued on March 11, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Gesture recognition, adaptation, and management in a head-wearable audio device" was invented by Eran Chencinski (Giv'at Shmuel, Israel), Shoham Dekel (Nes Ziona, Israel) and Shmuel Kaufman-Fridman (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-wearable audio device has a motion sensor that outputs motion parameter values based on a detected motion gesture. A gesture type is recognized by comparing the motion parameter values and per-user per-gesture-type recognition parameter values. An action is selected based on the selected ge...