ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,478, issued on May 27, was assigned to ULTRAHAPTICS IP TWO Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Systems and methods of tracking moving hands and recognizing gestural interactions" was invented by Kevin A. Horowitz (San Francisco), Matias Perez (San Francisco), Raffi Bedikian (San Francisco), David S. Holz (San Francisco) and Gabriel A. Hare (Daly City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed relates to relates to providing command input to a machine under control. It further relates to gesturally interacting with the machine. The technology disclosed also relates to providing monitoring information about a process u...