ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,638, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Bilateral teleoperation system and control method" was invented by Kun Xiong (Shenzhen, China), Longfei Zhao (Shenzhen, China), Dongsheng Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Lei Wei (Shenzhen, China), Cheng Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Haitao Wang (Shenzhen, China), Wangwei Lee (Shenzhen, China), Ke Chen (Shenzhen, China), Bidan Huang (Shenzhen, China) and Yi Ren (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bilateral teleoperation system includes: a primary-end operation platform and a secondary-end operation platform. The primary-end operation platform includ...