ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,933, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Multi-device gesture control" was invented by Kaan E. Dogrusoz (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ali Moin (Berkeley, Calif.), Joseph Cheng (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Erdrin Azemi (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject technology relate to gesture-control inputs to an electronic device for controlling one or more other devices. The electronic device can efficiently provide gesture control for multiple other devices by mapping a finite set of user gestures to a specific set of gesture-control elements for each of the multiple other devices....