ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,368, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Gesture-based user interface" was invented by David Franklin (Turnersville, N.J.), Van Shea Sedita (Wilmington, Del.) and Stephen Simpson (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for enabling gesture-based interactions between a computer program and a user is disclosed. According to certain embodiments, the method may include initiating the computer program. The method may also include detecting that a condition has occurred. The method may also include activating a gesture-based operation mode of the computer program. The...