US Patent Issued to Vanderbilt University on Nov. 4 for "System and method for efficient redirection of user interactions and gestures between remote and local environments in augmented reality" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,501, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.).

"System and method for efficient redirection of user interactions and gestures between remote and local environments in augmented reality" was invented by Akshith Ullal (Nashville, Tenn.), Nilanjan Sarkar (Nashville, Tenn.) and Alexandra Watkins (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for mapping a user's gestural interactions (positional interactions and pointing interactions) from their environment to that of their avatar's environment. The system and method provide a multi-objective optimization (MO) process with the primar...