ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,406, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Inner speech iterative learning loop" was invented by Marcos Jimenez (Miami), 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 iteratively training a user and a ML model to produce accurate inner speech outputs. The methods and systems access a ML model and perform a first training iteration in which EMG data corresponding to inner speech is processed by the machine learning model to decode the EMG data into a set of predicted phonemes, phoneme sounds, words or...