ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,593, issued on June 23, was assigned to AMERUS GROUP INC. (Clive, Iowa).

"Gesture-enabled interfaces, systems, methods, and applications for custom designing non-level life insurance benefits policies and supporting customized pricing" was invented by Brian James Clark (Clive, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to systems, methods, apparatuses, and techniques that utilize enhanced gesture-based input mechanisms to facilitate designing custom non-level life insurance benefits policies and supporting customized pricing. These technologies can be specially designed and configured to optimize creation, editin...