ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,260, issued on May 13, was assigned to Yellcast Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).
"Mobile device application user interface for gaming, entertainment, and other applications having geographic gesture-based input functionality" was invented by Ganesan Venkatakrishnan (San Carlos, Calif.), Peter Ellenby (Portland, Ore.), Thomas William Ellenby (Langhorne, Pa.), William Foster (Santa Fe, N.M.) and Peter Negulescu (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for generating inputs to a game software application might comprise obtaining sensor inputs from a set of sensors of a user device, the set of sensors compris...