US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 7 for "Systems and methods for a spatially aware control device" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,691, issued on July 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for a spatially aware control device" was invented by Petr Potnin (Seattle), Brett Andrew Tomky (Seattle), Insang Hwang (Sammamish, Wash.), Andrew James Hillenius (Woodinville, Wash.), Devin Samuel Jacob Caplow-Munro (Seattle) and Denys Yaremenko (Carnation, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device may include a processor. A control device may include a communication device operable to data communicate with the processor. A control device may include a positional sensor operable to data communicate with the pro...