US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on July 15 for "Gesture control of a data processing apparatus" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,605, issued on July 15, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Gesture control of a data processing apparatus" was invented by Akhil Mathur (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system is disclosed that comprises detecting a user gesture at a location which is remote from a data processing terminal and identifying a first application based on the distance of the detected user gesture being within a first distance range from the data processing terminal, wherein a plurality of applications are associated with different distance ranges from the data processing terminal. The method and system may further ...