US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on Feb. 17 for "Scaling laser projected user interfaces" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,391, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Scaling laser projected user interfaces" was invented by Kenneth Luke Kocienda (Mill Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example method, a wearable computing device obtains obtain sensor data from one or more sensors, and detects a trigger event based on the sensor data. The trigger event includes a user of the wearable computing device moving an open palm of the user's hand towards the user's face. In response to detecting the trigger event, the wearable computing device obtains a spoken input from the user using or more micr...