ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,284, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"System and method of controlling devices using motion gestures" was invented by Raghuram C. Kamath (San Jose, Calif.), Harneet Singh Oberoi (San Jose, Calif.), Iyappan Ramachandran (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jaemyung Lim (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Mohammad Shokoohi-Yekta (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an electronic device performs an action in response to detection of a sequence of one or more motion gestures. Motion gesture information of a first electronic device optionally includes a first portion representing a respective att...