US Patent Issued to Doublepoint Technologies on Feb. 18 for "Detecting user input from multi-modal hand bio-metrics" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,338, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Doublepoint Technologies Oy (Helsinki).

"Detecting user input from multi-modal hand bio-metrics" was invented by Jamin Hu (Helsinki), Ville Klar (Helsinki), Eemil Visakorpi (Helsinki) and Lauri Tuominen (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an input device and corresponding method which digitizes and transforms minute hand movements and gestures into user interface commands without interfering with the normal use of one's hands. The device and method may, for example, determine user actions based on detected user acti...