US Patent Issued to SICK on May 27 for "Augmented-reality-system for teaching a user of an application" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,384, issued on May 27, was assigned to SICK AG (Waldkirch, Germany).

"Augmented-reality-system for teaching a user of an application" was invented by Christoph Hofmann (Waldkirch, Germany), Jens Gebauer (Waldkirch, Germany) and Heiko Steinkemper (Waldkirch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an augmented reality system (AR system) for teaching a user of an application. The AR system comprises a detection unit that detects a real environment and provides it as environmental data, wherein at least one work unit is arranged in the environment; a communication unit that receives process data from the ...