US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 18 for "Determining charge on a facial-tracking sensor" (California, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,129, issued on March 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Determining charge on a facial-tracking sensor" was invented by Charles Walter Boecker (Ames, Iowa), Jouya Jadidian (Los Gatos, Calif.), Barry Thompson (Menlo Park, Calif.), Niranjan Achugundla Puttaswamy (San Jose, Calif.) and Lawrence Albert Prather (Boulder Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples are provided that relate to determining a capacitance based on a charge accumulated on a sense capacitor electrode. One example provides a head-mounted device comprising a facial-tracking sensor, a controller, and a charge sensing...