ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,470, issued on April 7.
"Gesture-based menuless command interface" was invented by William Martin Burckel (Colorado Springs, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for triggering application commands using a gesture-based approach that replaces the need for menu and toolbar graphical interface elements. Significant challenges arise when using a gesture only approach to implement a command interface given that navigation, annotation, and content manipulation must contend equally for the same limited set of distinct gesture interactions. The present inventio...