ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,286, issued on July 15, was assigned to Pro Trainings LLC (Ada, Mich.).

"Apparatus and method for procedural training" was invented by Scott Christopher Andersen (Lowell, Mich.), Adam Matthew Fox (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Jason Edwin Leighton (Portland, Ore.) and Mark Steven VanderVoord (Caledonia, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, an apparatus for procedural training is presented. An apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to at least a processor. A memory contains instructions configuring at least a processor to receive optical data from a sensor comprising a machine vision syste...