US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 3 for "Control of devices based on spatial information" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,062, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Control of devices based on spatial information" was invented by Michael J. Beyhs (Weingarten, Germany), Julian Quintana (San Jose, Calif.), Jacob L Matlick (San Francisco), Lichen Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Tu K. Nguyen (Fountain Valley, Calif.), Hojjat Seyed Mousavi (San Jose, Calif.) and Behrooz Shahsavari (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device can be used to remotely control a target device based on gestures made by a user of the control device. The control device (or a separate moderator device) may determine the location and o...