ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,187, issued on May 13, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Detection of facial expressions" was invented by Chulhong Min (Trumpington, Great Britain), Alessandro Montanari (Cambridge, Great Britain), Fahim Kawsar (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Akhil Mathur (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising means for: receiving information from at least one inertial measurement unit configured to be worn on a user's head; and causing, at least in part, determining facial expression information in dependence on at least the received information."
The patent was filed on Feb. 24, 2020, under Application...