ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,437, issued on April 7, was assigned to Arlo Technologies Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Monitoring system and method having gesture detection" was invented by Matthew McRae (Laguna Niguel, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of and system are disclosed for detecting various gestures by an imaging device and executing a task assigned to these gestures. For instance, the task could include a number of smart home functions, as well as various text and other communication transmissions. The imaging device, which can be a digital camera, is wirelessly communicable with one or more base stations and/or access points over a wireless ...