US Patent Issued to Ultrahaptics IP Two on June 17 for "Interacting with a machine using gestures in first and second user-specific virtual planes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,081, issued on June 17, was assigned to Ultrahaptics IP Two Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Interacting with a machine using gestures in first and second user-specific virtual planes" was invented by Avinash Dabir (San Francisco), Paul Durdik (Foster City, Calif.), Keith Mertens (Oakland, Calif.) and Michael Zagorsek (Yountville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for processing an input are disclosed that detect a portion of a hand/or other detectable object in a region of space monitored by a 3D sensor. The method further includes determining a zone corresponding to the region of space in which the portion of...