ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,500, issued on July 1, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"EMG speech signal detection" was invented by Mark Kliger (Modiin-Macabim-Reut, Israel), 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 machine learning (ML) model to detect inner speech. The system collects, by an electromyograph (EMG) communication device used by a user, a first set of EMG signals over a first time interval. The system generates a first plurality of features based on the first set of EMG signals and generates a first probability ass...