ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,773, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Zepp Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Peripheral device for operating a target device" was invented by Wang Huang (Anhui FTZ, China) and Kongqiao Wang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of using at least one peripheral device including an image sensor and at least one processor for operating a target device, including receiving a first input from a user associated with the target device indicative of a task to be performed by the target device; determining a first instruction for the target device to perform based on the first input; determining whether the first inst...