US Patent Issued to West Texas Technology Partners on Oct. 28 for "Method and apparatus for applying free space input for surface constrained control" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,633, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to West Texas Technology Partners LLC (Washington).

"Method and apparatus for applying free space input for surface constrained control" was invented by Shashwat Kandadai (Cupertino, Calif.), Nathan Abercrombie (Oakland, Calif.), Yu-Hsiang Chen (Cupertino, Calif.) and Sleiman Itani (East Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A free space input standard is instantiated on a processor. Free space input is sensed and communicated to the processor. If the free space input satisfies the free space input standard, a touch screen input response is invoked in an operating system. The free space...