ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,981, issued on April 21, was assigned to CAE INC. (Saint-Laurent, Canada).
"Remote pointer for simulators" was invented by Mark Soodeen (Saint-Laurent, Canada), Nick Giannias (Saint-Laurent, Canada) and Andrew Fernie (Saint-Laurent, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a computer-implemented method for remotely pointing to a region of interest within a simulation environment, the process comprising the steps of: receiving coordinates of at least one point selected within a given image of at least a portion of the simulation environment, the given image being displayed on a display unit; identifying a region of int...