ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,125, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Augmented reality system and method for collecting custom datasets for 3D hand-object interaction pose estimation" was invented by Karthik Ramani (West Lafayette, Ind.), Xun Qian (West Lafayette, Ind.), Tianyi Wang (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Fengming He (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for hand-object interaction dataset collection is described herein, which is configured to support user-specified collection of hand-object interaction datasets. Such hand-object interaction datasets are useful, for exampl...