US Patent Issued to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA on Nov. 25 for "Collaborative mixed-reality system for immersive surgical telementoring" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,192, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA (Oakland, Calif.).

"Collaborative mixed-reality system for immersive surgical telementoring" was invented by Nadir Weibel (La Jolla, Calif.), Michael Yip (San Diego), Danilo Gasques Rodrigues (San Diego), Thomas Sharkey (San Diego), Janet Johnson (San Diego) and Konrad Davis (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods utilize mixed reality technologies to enable remotely located expert surgeons to instruct novice surgeons as if they were together in the same operating room. An example method may involve: (1) displaying, on a virtual rea...