US Patent Issued to Apple on May 12 for "Location aware visual markers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,395, issued on May 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Location aware visual markers" was invented by Anselm Grundhoefer (Saratoga, Calif.), Jeffrey S. Norris (Saratoga, Calif.), Mohamed Selim Ben Himane (Milpitas, Calif.), Paul Ewers (San Francisco), Scott G. Wade (Santa Clara, Calif.), Shih-Sang (Carnaven) Chiu (San Francisco), Thomas G. Salter (Foster City, Calif.), Tom Sengelaub (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Viral N. Parekh (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that determine the relative positioning (e.g., offset) between a mo...