US Patent Issued to Apple on March 4 for "Multi-finger gesture based on finger manipulation data and extremity tracking data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,668, issued on March 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Multi-finger gesture based on finger manipulation data and extremity tracking data" was invented by Aaron M. Burns (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Adam G. Poulos (Saratoga, Calif.), Arun Rakesh Yoganandan (San Francisco), Benjamin Hylak (San Francisco), Benjamin R. Blachnitzky (San Francisco) and Nicolai Georg (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is performed at an electronic device with one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, a display, an extremity tracking system, and a communication interface provided to communicate with a finger-wearable dev...