ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,750, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Q (Cue) Ltd. (Ramat Gan, Israel).
"Earbud with facial micromovement detection capabilities" was invented by Yonatan Wexler (Jerusalem).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multifunctional earpiece comprising an ear-mountable housing, a speaker integrated with the ear-mountable housing for presenting sound, a light source integrated with the ear-mountable housing for projecting light toward skin of the wearer's face, a light detector integrated with the ear-mountable housing and configured to receive reflections from the skin corresponding to facial skin micromovements indicative of prevocalized words ...