ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,784, issued on July 22, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Training users to produce inner speech" was invented by Elizabeth Izakson (Tel Aviv, 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 users to produce inner speech. The system presents a prompt on a display device with one or more instructions for a user to produce inner speech and, in response to presenting the prompt, monitors EMG data to detect existence of inner speech. The system, in response to detecting existence of the inner speech, pr...