US Patent Issued to Google on July 22 for "Confidence-based application-specific user interactions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,924, issued on July 22, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Confidence-based application-specific user interactions" was invented by Ashton Udall (San Bruno, Calif.), Andrew Christopher Felch (Palo Alto, Calif.) and James Paul Tobin (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application is directed to a method for controlling user experience (UX) operations on an electronic device that executes an application. A touchless UX operation associated with the application has an initiation condition including at least detection of a presence and a gesture in a required proximity range with a required confidence lev...