ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,027, issued on May 6, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Method for operating an appliance using hand gestures" was invented by Haitian Hu (Louisville, Ky.) and Adam Hofmann (Louisville, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of using a remote server to operate a first appliance of a plurality of appliances connected to an external network includes receiving one or more images from a second appliance of the plurality of appliances, analyzing the one or more images to detect a hand gesture, identifying a responsive action associated with the hand gesture, and instructing the first appliance to ...