ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,559, issued on April 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Gesture tracking system" was invented by Sai Harsha Jandhyala (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Raffi A. Bedikian (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that identify a gesture based on event camera data and frame-based camera data (e.g., for a CGR environment). In some implementations at an electronic device having a processor, event camera data is obtained corresponding to light (e.g., IR light) reflected from a physical environment and received at an event camera. In some im...