ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,925, issued on May 26, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Context-sensitive control of radar-based gesture-recognition" was invented by Vignesh Sachidanandam (Redwood City, Calif.), Ivan Poupyrev (Los Altos, Calif.), Leonardo Giusti (San Francisco), Devon James O'Reilley Stern (Oakland, Calif.), Jung Ook Hong (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Patrick M. Amihood (Palo Alto, Calif.), John David Jacobs (San Diego), Abel Seleshi Mengistu (Mountain View, Calif.), Brandon Barbello (Mountain View, Calif.) and Tyler Reed Kugler (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes techniques and systems for radar-base...