ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,266, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Operation assistance system" was invented by Wen-Yuh Jywe (Taipei, Taiwan), Tung-Hsing Hsieh (Taipei, Taiwan), Shang-Kai Liao (Taipei, Taiwan), Yung-Chuan Huang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Ruo-Heng Wang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation assistance system can collect on-site data and perform fault diagnosis analysis to provide an operational guidance for helping users to operate a subject device. In the operation assistance system, a user device is configured to observe the subject device, capture live video, and simultaneously dis...