Wearable Devices Ltd. (Nasdaq: WLDS, WLDSW), an Israel-based company specializing in AI-powered touchless sensing wearables, announced on August 11, 2026 that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a new continuation patent within its existing “Gesture and Voice-Controlled Interface Device” patent family. This is not a brand-new “foundational” patent, but rather the formal grant that follows the Notice of Allowance the company had already received from the USPTO back on April 24, 2026 for the same continuation application. The Manila TimesStock Titan
The granted claims cover a gesture interface device and method that pairs gesture sensors with biopotential sensors to record neural signals directly from the wearer’s wrist while the device is worn. A processor analyzes the sensed gestures against each user’s personalized gesture signature, building a “gesture metric space” that clusters an individual’s own gestures together while separating them from other users’ patterns. The Manila TimesIdTechWire
According to the company, the technology could enable use cases such as secure payments, user detection, and authorization of sensitive actions. Wearable Devices’ consumer line includes the Mudra Band and Mudra Link, which target gesture-based control for gaming, productivity, and XR/AR applications, and the company has recently pursued a collaboration with Meta-Bounds aimed at bringing neural gesture control to AR glasses. IdTechWire GlobeNewswire
Worth noting: Despite the “start-up” framing sometimes used around this story, Wearable Devices is a publicly traded company on Nasdaq, not an early-stage private start-up. The competitive landscape is also heating up — Oura moved into gesture biometrics via its acquisition of Doublepoint in March 2026, and Apple has been separately filing radar-based biometric monitoring patents, underscoring that this is a contested space rather than a totally uncontested “moat,” as the original headline implied.
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