ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,632, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Wearable device having gestures for proximate points of interest" was invented by Ishac Bertran (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Jochen Weber (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computing systems and computer-implemented methods are provided. In one aspect, the computer-implemented method includes detecting, by a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, a user gesture from a user of the computing system. The computer-implemented method includes, responsive to detecting the user gesture, obtaining, by the computing system, data associated with...