US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 16 for "Matching between 2D and 3D for direct localization" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,764, issued on June 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Matching between 2D and 3D for direct localization" was invented by Johannes Lutz Schonberger (Zurich), Rui Wang (Zurich), Prune Solange Garance Truong (Zurich) and Marc Andre Leon Pollefeys (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Determining a location of an entity comprises: receiving a query comprising a 2D image depicting an environment of the entity; searching for a match between the query and a 3D map of the environment. The 3D map comprising a 3D point cloud, the match indicating the location of the entity in the environment. Searching...