US Patent Issued to Google on June 24 for "RF-based micro-motion tracking for gesture tracking and recognition" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,028, issued on June 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"RF-based micro-motion tracking for gesture tracking and recognition" was invented by Jaime Lien (Mountain View, Calif.), Erik M. Olson (Mountain View, Calif.), Patrick M. Amihood (Mountain View, Calif.) and Ivan Poupyrev (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes techniques for radio frequency (RF) based micro-motion tracking. These techniques enable even millimeter-scale hand motions to be tracked. To do so, radar signals are used from radar systems that, with conventional techniques, would only permit resolutions of a centime...