ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,001, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method for gesture generation and management" was invented by Arun Kumar Shukla (Bangalore, India), Ramanathan Muthiah (Bangalore, India) and Snehal Vithal Uphale (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device and method are provided for gesture generation and management. In one embodiment, a data storage device is provided comprising a memory and one or more processors. The one or more processors, individually or in combination, are configured to: extract subtitles from a video stored in the memory...