US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 4 for "Determining user intent during two-handed gestures" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,461, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Determining user intent during two-handed gestures" was invented by Vinay Chawda (San Jose, Calif.), Chase B. Lortie (San Francisco), Daniel J. Brewer (Redwood City, Calif.) and Julian K. Shutzberg (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods that interpret user activity, such as two hand gestures, as user interactions with virtual elements (e.g., UI elements) positioned within in a 3D space such as an XR environment. For example, an example process may include receiving data corresponding to user activity involving two hands of a us...