ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,291, issued on May 13, was assigned to Bandwidth10 LTD..

"Systems for detecting gestures" was invented by Carlos Fernando Rondina Mateus (Berkeley, Calif.), Christopher Chase (Berkeley, Calif.), Michael C. Y. Huang (Taipei, Taiwan), Murat Serbay (Berlin), Stefano Prandoni (Berlin) and Philip Worland (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring device system includes a tunable VCSEL laser 10 with one or more active regions having quantum wells and barriers. The active regions are surrounded by one or more p-n junctions. The one or more active regions can include a selected shape structure each with a tunnel junction (...