ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,749, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Q (Cue) Ltd. (Ramat Gan, Israel).

"Using facial skin micromovements to identify a user" was invented by Aviad Maizels (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Yonatan Wexler (Jerusalem) and Avi Barliya (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Head mountable systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media including instructions for identifying individuals using facial skin micromovements are disclosed. An example head mountable system may include a wearable housing, a coherent light source, a detector, and at least one processor. The at least one processor may analyze reflection signals from...