ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,037, issued on July 29, was assigned to Hussein Ghassan H. Tahir Fadlallah (Amman, Jordan).

"Capturing touchless inputs and controlling a user interface with the same" was invented by Zouheir Taher Fadlallah (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for capturing touchless inputs and controlling an electronic device with the same are described. In one embodiment, the method for controlling a user interface of software on a portable electronic device, the method comprising: obtaining one or more touchless inputs by capturing movements of the portable electronic device resulting from one or more hand gestures made b...