US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on July 8 for "Methods and devices for hand-on-wheel gesture interaction for controls" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,636, issued on July 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and devices for hand-on-wheel gesture interaction for controls" was invented by Wenshu Luo (Toronto), Sachi Mizobuchi (Richmond Hill, Canada), Wei Zhou (Markham, Canada) and Wei Li (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices, and processor-readable media for hand-on-wheel gesture controls are described. A steering wheel is virtually segmented into a plurality of radial segments. Each segment is assigned a semantic meaning. Control commands related to control functions are mapped to different virtual segments of the ste...