US Patent Issued to Niantic Spatial on April 7 for "Simulated consistency check for points of interest on three-dimensional maps" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,203, issued on April 7, was assigned to Niantic Spatial Inc. (San Francisco).

"Simulated consistency check for points of interest on three-dimensional maps" was invented by Ben Benfold (Oxford, Great Britain) and Victor Adrian Prisacariu (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes approaches to camera re-localization that improve the accuracy of re-localization determinations by performing simulated consistency checks for three-dimensional maps. Client devices associated with users of a location-based application transmit image scans to a game server, which divides the received scan data int...