ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,371, issued on June 9, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Visual positioning method, storage medium and electronic device" was invented by Yuhao Zhou (Dongguan, China), Jijunnan Li (Dongguan, China) and Yandong Guo (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a visual positioning method, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and an electronic device. Surface normal vectors of a current image frame is obtained. A first transformation parameter between the current image frame and a reference image frame is determined, by projecting the surface normal vector...