ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,943, issued on June 16, was assigned to P41N7 Capital LLC (Cupertino, Calif.).

"System for creating software programs using a gesture-based interface" was invented by Joon Park (New York), Daniel LaCivita (New York), Michael Ferdman (New York) and Eric Eng (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for creating programs with gestures with a touch computer having a touch display, a plurality of actions preloaded on the touch computer for execution by the touch computer when triggered, a trigger received by the touch computer, software executing on the touch computer for associating the trigger with a corresponding one of the pl...