ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,255, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Input device for three-dimensional control" was invented by Bart K. Andre (Palo Alto, Calif.), Brian T. Gleeson (Mountain View, Calif.), Kristi E. Bauerly (Los Altos, Calif.), William D. Lindmeier (San Francisco), Matthew J. Sundstrom (Campbell, Calif.), Geng Luo (Santa Clara, Calif.), Seung Wook Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Evangelos Christodoulou (Santa Clara, Calif.), Megan M. Sapp (San Francisco), Kainoa Kwon-Perez (San Francisco) and John B. Morrell (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional control system includes an input device, a c...