US Patent Issued to SIM IP HXR on July 28 for "Systems and methods of free-space gestural interaction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,743, issued on July 28, was assigned to SIM IP HXR LLC (Sunny Isles Beach, Fla.).

"Systems and methods of free-space gestural interaction" was invented by Hua Yang (Millbrae, Calif.), Leonid Kontsevich (San francisco), James Donald (San Francisco), David S. Holz (San Francisco), Jonathan Marsden (San Mateo, Calif.) and Paul Durdik (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During control of a user interface via free-space motions of a hand or other suitable control object, switching between control modes can be facilitated by tracking the control object's movements relative to, and its contact with a "virtual touch plane or ...