ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,249, issued on March 11, was assigned to TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Virtual and real integrated medical teaching assistance system based on mixed reality and method thereof" was invented by Jen-Chieh Wu (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual and real integrated medical teaching assistance system based on mixed reality and a method thereof are disclosed. A virtualization computing device corrects and positions a virtual posture model to a predefined position on the physical environment image, recognizes an operation gesture from the physical environment image to trigger a teaching function to obtai...