ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,669, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Virtual tools for supported tele-operations" was invented by Mathias Franzius (Offenbach, Germany) and Dirk Ruiken (Offenbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user interface for instructing a tele-operating system and the tele-operating system are provided. The user interface includes an output device configured to output at least one virtual tool representation of at least one tool to an operator of the tele-operating system, and an input device configured to obtain a selection instruction from the operator for selecting one of the output at least one vi...