ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,025, issued on June 24, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Systems, methods, and apparatuses for execution of gesture commands" was invented by Scott A. Armstrong (Wayne, Pa.), Arun Ravisankar (Philadelphia), Resmi Vijayan (Philadelphia), Arpit Mathur (Pittsburgh), Julianne Heinzmann (Philadelphia) and Natalie Mazer (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Upon detection of a gesture, a current context of an environment in which the gesture is performed may be determined. The current context may be used to interpret the gesture to determine which of potentially a plurality of devices are to be contr...