US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on April 14 for "Authoring systems and methods for enabling bidirectional binding of augmented reality with toys in real-time" (Indiana, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,888, issued on April 14, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Authoring systems and methods for enabling bidirectional binding of augmented reality with toys in real-time" was invented by Karthik Ramani (West Lafayette, Ind.), Zhengzhe Zhu (West Lafayette, Ind.), Ziyi Liu (Delaware, Ohio) and Tianyi Wang (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented reality (AR) interaction authoring system is described. The AR interaction authoring system is configured to support the real-time creation of AR applications to support AR-enhanced toys. The design of the AR interaction authoring system...