ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,863, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to HTC Corp. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Method for determining floor plane and host" was invented by Yun-Ting Wang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Nien Hsin Chou (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for determining a floor plane and a host. The method includes: determining a first plane as a reference floor plane based on motion data; in response to determining that the host has moved for a predetermined distance after determining the first plane as the reference floor plane, determining a plurality of first feature points on the reference floor plane; ...