US Patent Issued to Magic Leap on May 26 for "Systems and methods for virtual and augmented reality" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,579, issued on May 26, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for virtual and augmented reality" was invented by Paul-Edouard Sarlin (Zurich), Daniel DeTone (San Francisco), Tomasz Jan Malisiewicz (Somerville, Mass.) and Andrew Rabinovich (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The description relates the feature matching. Our approach establishes pointwise correspondences between challenging image pairs. It takes off-the-shelf local features as input and uses an attentional graph neural network to solve an assignment optimization problem. The deep middle-end matcher acts as a middle-end and han...