US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on July 28 for "Methods and systems for combined voice and gesture control" (Colorado, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,878, issued on July 28, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for combined voice and gesture control" was invented by Dhananjay Lal (Englewood, Colo.) and Reda Harb (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for enabling the combined voice and gesture control of a computing device. A voice command is received at a computing device from a user, and a gesture being performed by the user concurrently to the voice command being received is identified. A location of the user performing the gesture is identified in an area proximate to the user, and a direction vect...