ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,053, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Self-localizing wireless communications" was invented by Armin Alaghi (Kirkland, Wash.), Muzaffer Kal (Redmond, Wash.) and Richard Andrew Newcombe (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a map of a building floor plan with locations of access points within the floor plan, the access points being capable of performing wireless communications with wireless devices. Determining a pose of a wireless device within the map using images captured by one or more cameras of the wireless device. Selecting...