US Patent Issued to Snap on Nov. 11 for "Robotic learning of assembly tasks using augmented reality" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,234, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Robotic learning of assembly tasks using augmented reality" was invented by Kai Zhou (Wiener Neudorf, Austria) and Adrian Schoisengeier (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for programming a robotic system by demonstration is described. In one aspect, the method includes displaying a first virtual object in a display of an augmented reality (AR) device, the first virtual object corresponding to a first physical object in a physical environment of the AR device, tracking, using the AR device, a manipulation of the first virtual object by a user of th...