US Patent Issued to Intel on April 7 for "Gesture-controlled virtual reality systems and methods of controlling the same" (Oregon, Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,440, issued on April 7, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Gesture-controlled virtual reality systems and methods of controlling the same" was invented by Manan Goel (Hillsboro, Ore.), Saurin Shah (Portland, Ore.), Lakshman Krishnamurthy (Portland, Ore.), Steven Xing (San Jose, Calif.), Matthew Pinner (Denver) and Kevin James Doucette (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gesture-controlled virtual reality systems and methods of controlling the same are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes an on-body sensor to output first signals associated with at least one of movement of a body part of a user or a...