ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,197, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Truist Bank (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Gesture recognition for advanced security" was invented by Yadhira Haydee Arroyo (Chicago), Ryan Hepford (Raleigh, N.C.) and Gaurav Sinha (Hawthorne, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Security can be provided for a user in a banking environment by detecting a gesture. For example, a system described herein can include a sensing device positionable to detect the gesture from the user. The system can include a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium that includes instructions executable by the processor to perform operations. The operations can ...