US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Systems for detecting gestures performed within activation-threshold distances of artificial-reality objects to cause operations at physical electronic devices, and methods of use thereof" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,792, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems for detecting gestures performed within activation-threshold distances of artificial-reality objects to cause operations at physical electronic devices, and methods of use thereof" was invented by Eric Whitmire (Kenmore, Wash.), Rajinder Sodhi (Seattle), Andre Levi (Seattle), Austin Lee (Seattle) and Szeyin Lee (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes, while presenting an artificial-reality environment that includes a virtual object and a representation of a physical object, detecting, based on data from a first gro...