US Patent Issued to Medivis on May 6 for "Virtual interaction with instruments in augmented reality" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,326, issued on May 6, was assigned to Medivis Inc. (New York).

"Virtual interaction with instruments in augmented reality" was invented by Long Qian (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Christopher Morley (New York) and Osamah Choudhry (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to an Interaction Engine that generates within a unified three-dimensional (3D) coordinate space: (i) a 3D virtual medical model positioned according to a model pose and (ii) at least one virtual object associated with a physical instrument, the physical instrument hav...