ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,500, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Monsarrat Inc. (Hyde Park, Mass.).
"Multiuser synchronization of real and virtual worlds" was invented by Jonathan Monsarrat (Swansea, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As part of a location-based experience, multiple users share a virtual world whose frame of reference is correlated to a real world position and orientation. Each user begins real-time tracking of their relative movements, and takes relative angle and distance measurements to other users with detection devices without relying on an absolute positioning system. This forms a graph of real-world user alignments that can be mirrore...