US Patent Issued to Wispr AI on July 29 for "System and method for using gestures and expressions for controlling speech applications" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,317, issued on July 29, was assigned to Wispr AI Inc. (San Franciso, Calif.).

"System and method for using gestures and expressions for controlling speech applications" was invented by Sahaj Garg (San Francisco), Tanay Kothari (San Francisco) and Anthony Leonardo (Broadlands, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for detecting and processing gestures, expressions (e.g., facial), tone and/or gestures of the user for the purpose of improving the quality and speed of interactions with computer-based systems. Such information may be detected by one or more sensors such as, for example, electromyography (EMG)...