ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,572, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to NEX Team Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for touchless control with a mobile device" was invented by Wang Fai Ng (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Wing Hung Chan (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Long Mak (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Keng Fai Lee (Cupertino, Calif.) and On Loy Sung (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for touchless control of a device include receiving at least one image; determining a first map, the first map including a function that generates a correspondence between data associated with the image to a feature space; determining a second map includin...