ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,758, issued on March 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for interacting with virtual objects using hand gestures" was invented by Mylene E. Dreyer (San Francisco), Marisa R. Lu (San Francisco) and Julian K. Missig (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to interacting with virtual objects using hand gestures. In some embodiments, methods and user interfaces for navigating content using hand gestures are described. In some embodiments, methods and user interfaces for using hand gestures to perform various operations a...