ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,663, issued on April 1, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Gesture-based application invocation" was invented by Sharon Moll (Lachen, Switzerland), Piotr Gurgul (Hergiswil, Switzerland), Francis Patrick Sullivan (Sandy, Utah) and Andrei Rybin (Lehi, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-worn device system includes one or more cameras, one or more display devices and one or more processors. The system also includes a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, configure the system to detect a gesture made by a user of the computing apparatus and generate gesture data identifying ...