US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Nov. 11 for "Systems for detecting in-air and surface gestures available for use in an artificial-reality environment using sensors at a wrist-wearable device, and methods of use thereof" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,393, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems for detecting in-air and surface gestures available for use in an artificial-reality environment using sensors at a wrist-wearable device, and methods of use thereof" was invented by Eric Whitmire (Kenmore, Wash.), Rajinder Sodhi (Seattle), Andre Levi (Seattle) and Austin Lee (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A artificial-reality system, including an optional head-wearable device to display an artificial-reality environment and a wrist-wearable device, identifies and detects shapes of surfaces, and, optionally, the distances o...