US Patent Issued to NATIONAL YANG MING CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY on July 8 for "System for navigating a virtual environment using seated walking-in-place footstep locomotion" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,615, issued on July 8, was assigned to NATIONAL YANG MING CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"System for navigating a virtual environment using seated walking-in-place footstep locomotion" was invented by Li-Wei Chan (New Taipei, Taiwan), Tzu-Wei Mi (Taichung, Taiwan), Chung-Hao Hsueh (Tianwei Township, Taiwan) and Yi-Ci Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for navigating a virtual environment using seated walking-in-place footstep locomotion includes a virtual reality device, a first sensing device, and a second sensing device. The first sensing device senses the first footstep locomotion of one of fee...