US Patent Issued to SNAP on Nov. 11 for "Finger gesture recognition via acoustic-optic sensor fusion" (New York, Washington, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,395, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Finger gesture recognition via acoustic-optic sensor fusion" was invented by Gurunandan Krishnan Gorumkonda (Kirkland, Wash.), Shree K. Nayar (New York), Chenhan Xu (North Bergen, N.J.) and Bing Zhou (Rye, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A finger gesture recognition system is provided. The finger gesture recognition system includes one or more audio sensors and one or more optic sensors. The finger gesture recognition system captures, using the one or more audio sensors, audio signal data of a finger gesture being made by a user, and captures, using the on...