US Patent Issued to Apple on March 3 for "Techniques for triggering input actions from detected gestures" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,508, issued on March 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for triggering input actions from detected gestures" was invented by Julian K. Shutzberg (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing gesture input includes detecting a first instance of a gesture based on hand tracking data, determining that the first instance of the gesture fails to satisfy an input action trigger based on a first set of heuristics for the gesture, and detecting a second instance of the gesture based on additional hand tracking data. In accordance with a determination that the second instance of the gesture is detected w...