ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,905, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Multi-mode two-hand gesture tracking" was invented by Leah Gum (Sunol, Calif.), Chase B Lortie (San Francisco) and Julian K Shutzberg (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that interpret user activity involving both hands based on determining an interaction mode associated with each hand of a user. For example, a process may receive data corresponding to user activity involving two hands of a user in a 3-dimensional (3D) coordinate system. The process may further identify acti...