US Patent Issued to SNAP on Jan. 13 for "User calibration of EMG speech signal detection" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,240, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"User calibration of EMG speech signal detection" was invented by Mark Kliger (Modiin-Macabim-Reut, Israel), Yaron Laufer (Brookline, Mass.), Meir Meshulam (Princeton, N.J.) and Assif Ziv (Beit Yitzhak-Sha'ar Hefer, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for training a user-specific machine learning (ML) model to detect inner speech. The system accesses the ML model trained to detect inner speech based on a general population dataset. The system collects, by an electromyograph (EMG) communication device, a set of EMG signals gen...