US Patent Issued to Nant Holdings IP on Sept. 2 for "Wide area augmented reality location-based services" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,441, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Nant Holdings IP LLC (Culver City, Calif.).

"Wide area augmented reality location-based services" was invented by David McKinnon (San Francisco), Kamil Wnuk (Playa del Rey, Calif.), Jeremi Sudol (New York), Matheen Siddiqui (Culver City, Calif.), John Wiacek (Los Angeles), Bing Song (La Canada, Calif.) and Nicholas J. Witchey (Laguna Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, methods and systems of providing AR content are disclosed. Embodiments of the inventive subject matter can obtain an initial map of an area, derive views of interest, obtain AR content objects associated with ...