ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,725, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Global Relay Communications Inc. (Vancouver, Canada).

"System and method for searching electronic records using gestures" was invented by Warren Roy (London), Danielly Pierobon Roper (Vancouver, Canada), Dimitrios Kontaris (London) and Alfred Scholldorf (Kings Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure presents a method, application, client and server that process search commands for a database. The method executes instructions on processors at a client and at a server the server controlling a database. First, instructions at the client determine first commands associated with a f...