ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,616, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).
"Real-time synchronization between a physical entity and a mixed reality environment" was invented by Stephen Rudofski (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Danni Zhang (Auburn Hills, Mich.), Ramtin Parvizi (Windsor, Canada), Robert Ondrus (Northville, Mich.) and Luciano L. Oetting (Washington Township, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a physical entity operatively connected to a plurality of sensors. A microcontroller is configured to map a respective baseline position of the sensors. A virtual reality (VR) controller is adapted to cre...