US Patent Issued to The University of British Columbia on March 24 for "System and apparatus for remote interaction with an object" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,382, issued on March 24, was assigned to The University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada).

"System and apparatus for remote interaction with an object" was invented by David Gregory Black (Vancouver, Canada), Septimiu Salcudean (Vancouver, Canada), Yas Oloumi Yazdi (West Vancouver, Canada) and Amir Hossein Hadi Hosseinabadi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for remote interaction with a patient includes a local system including a physical element to interact with the patient, and a local electronic device with a camera to capture images of the physical element interacting with the patient, and ...