ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,821, issued on May 20, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Radar-based gesture classification using a variational auto-encoder neural network" was invented by Avik Santra (Munich), Souvik Hazra (Munich) and Thomas Reinhold Stadelmayer (Wenzenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method includes: obtaining one or more positional time spectrograms of a radar measurement of a scene comprising an object; and based on the one or more positional time spectrograms and based on a feature embedding of a variational auto-encoder neural network, predicting a gesture class of a gesture perfo...