US Patent Issued to Niantic Spatial on April 14 for "Controlling augmented reality content via selection of real-world locations or objects" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,880, issued on April 14, was assigned to Niantic Spatial Inc. (San Francisco).

"Controlling augmented reality content via selection of real-world locations or objects" was invented by Christopher Grant Stoski (San Rafael, Calif.), Marcus Romell Reed (San Bruno, Calif.), Jose Juan Ceballos (San Rafael, Calif.), Marcos Enrique Borregales (Discovery Bay, Calif.) and Justin Ryan Pando I (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A client device and a controller allow a user to control AR content by selecting real-world locations or objects. The client receives position data indicating a position and orientation of the controller, th...