ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,781, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Methods for gesture recognition and control" was invented by Wenxun Qiu (Allen, Texas), Boon Loong Ng (Plano, Texas), Han Wang (Plano, Texas) and Khuong N. Nguyen (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device and a method for gesture recognition are disclosed. The electronic device includes a radar transceiver and a processor operably connected to the radar transceiver. The processor is configured to detect a triggering event. In response to detecting the triggering event, the processor is configured to transmit, via the...