US Patent Issued to Google on July 1 for "Initiating a computing device interaction mode using off-screen gesture detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,502, issued on July 1, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Initiating a computing device interaction mode using off-screen gesture detection" was invented by Xuelin Huang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Shumin Zhai (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes identifying, by a mobile computing device that includes a housing and a presence-sensitive display, and based on a first group of sensor signals provided at least by an inertial measurement unit included in one or more sensors, at least one first gesture that is performed at portions of the housing, wherein the one or more portions are...