US Patent Issued to WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY on June 23 for "Augmented reality visualization of detected defects" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,746, issued on June 23, was assigned to WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY (Wichita, Kan.).

"Augmented reality visualization of detected defects" was invented by Waruna Seneviratne (Wichita, Kan.), John Tomblin (Wichita, Kan.) and Tharaka Nandakumara (Wichita, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A defect visualization system includes an augmented reality viewing device including a display, and a visualization module configured to receive defect data representative of the defects on the part, determine a position of the augmented reality viewing device in relation to the part, generate one or more display objects, wherein each display object of...