ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,923, issued on May 26, was assigned to Neural Lab Inc. (El Dorado Hills, Calif.).

"Touchless image-based input interface" was invented by Sherry S. Chang (El Dorado Hills, Calif.) and Oliver W. Chen (El Dorado Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for input detection at a computing device includes receiving, from a camera, a plurality of images depicting a user hand. The plurality of images are processed to detect a plurality of user intent parameters, including a predefined activation gesture performed by the user hand. Responsive to the plurality of user intent parameters satisfying a gesture input activation conditi...