US Patent Issued to WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT on Feb. 24 for "Gesture recognition device and method for sensing multi-factor assertion" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,008, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Gesture recognition device and method for sensing multi-factor assertion" was invented by Nathan Nocon (Valencia, Calif.) and Tom McWilliams (Studio City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gesture-recognition (GR) device is disclosed that includes a capacitive touch sensor panel and a controller. The capacitive touch sensor panel comprises a plurality of sensing pads arranged in a cylindrical pattern inside a handle of the GR device and detects a multi-factor touch assertion at a set of sensing pads of the plurality of sensing pads. The ...