ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,827, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Sensing device for gesture recognition and motion tracking" was invented by Fabio Passaniti (Syracuse, Italy), Enrico Rosario Alessi (Catania, Italy) and Salvatore Ferrara (Aci Catena, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for gesture tracking and motion tracking. The method includes providing a barometric signal via a barometric sensor, processing the barometric signal with a state machine having a plurality of states, the plurality of states comprising stationary states and moving states, transitioning from a first state of the plura...