ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,334, issued on March 24, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Palm-based human-computer interaction method and apparatus, device, medium, and program product" was invented by Zhongfang Lv (Shenzhen, China), Runzeng Guo (Shenzhen, China), Jiayu Huang (Shenzhen, China) and Yin-Kai Lee (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a palm-based human-computer interaction method performed by a computer device. The method includes: obtaining, by a palm-based interaction device, sensor data of a palm that is captured by at least two proximity sensors, the at least two proximity sensor...