ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,026, issued on June 24, was assigned to Oura Health Oy (Oulu, Finland).

"Techniques for gesture recognition using wearable device data" was invented by Jukka Partanen (Mantsala, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for gesture recognition are described. A system may identify geographical location data associated with a user throughout a time interval and may identify a set of gesture profiles corresponding to a set of gestures associated with the geographical location data of the user. The system may additionally acquire physiological data, including motion data, associated with the user from a wearabl...