US Patent Issued to MAGIC LEAP on Aug. 25 for "Waypoint creation in map detection" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,502, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to MAGIC LEAP INC. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Waypoint creation in map detection" was invented by Javier Antonio Busto (Plantation, Fla.) and Jonathan Brodsky (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented reality (AR) device can be configured to generate a virtual representation of a user's physical environment. The AR device can capture images of the user's physical environment to generate a mesh map. The AR device can project graphics at designated locations on a virtual bounding box to guide the user to capture images of the user's physical environment. The AR device can provide ...