ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,490, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and method for processing information for using a non-contact gesture user interface" was invented by Tomohiro Ishibashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: detect a specific noncontact operation performed by a user on an operation surface; and display, if the specific noncontact operation is detected, an operation object for achieving a gesture operation based on movement of the user with resp...