ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,956, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Method and system to detect two-hand gestures" was invented by Enrico Rosario Alessi (Catania, Italy), Alessandro Maio (Syracuse, Italy) and Fabio Passaniti (Syracuse, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable device includes an accelerometer, at least three electrodes to detect electromyography signal, a communication circuitry, and a processor circuitry. A user wears a primary and a secondary wearable device on two limbs. When the user performs a two-hand gesture, the wearable devices detect a primary and a secondary movement pattern. T...