US Patent Issued to Niantic Spatial on July 14 for "Generating and presenting third-party augmented reality content" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,581, issued on July 14, was assigned to Niantic Spatial Inc. (San Francisco).

"Generating and presenting third-party augmented reality content" was invented by Erik Marshall Murphy-Chutorian (Palo Alto, Calif.), Nicholas John Butko (Cupertino, Calif.) and Rigel Gareth Benton (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system generates and stores virtual models of physical spaces. These virtual models represent physical objects within the physical spaces through 3D representations of those objects. A content development system can request a virtual model associated with a physical space and modify the virtual model...