ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,612, issued on April 22, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS (RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT) Ltd. (Marlow, Great Britain).
"Three-dimensional interactive display" was invented by Jeff M. Raynor (Edinburgh, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a three-dimensional interactive display system. The system detects a position of a user (e.g., the user's finger or hand) or an optical emitter device, along three different dimensions. In a case where the system detects a position of a user's finger, the user wears a passive device having angled surfaces on his or her finger to improve detection of the user'...