U.S. Patent 7680298 was awarded to AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. on 2010-03-16 and describes a “Methods, systems, and products for gesture-activated appliances.” This patent has been cited 305 times by other U.S. patents which places it in the top 500 cited patents since 2010 according to our law firm research, and makes it of the most innovative computer technology patents in the field of electrical engineering. The abstract states:

Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for operating home appliances using gesture recognition. A sequence of video images is received and compared to a stored sequence of gesture images. A recognized gesture is associated to a home appliance and to an operation of the home appliance. An appliance controller causes a response to the recognized gesture to perform the operation of the home appliance. Link: U.S. Patent 7680298

This patent was originally filed on 2008-10-08 which gives it a processing time of 524 days, compared to an average processing time of 1429 in the field. AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. has 9934 total patents. The first named inventor is Linda Roberts of Decatur, IL. The primary examiner was Yon Couso.

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