US Patent Issued to Niantic Spatial on June 2 for "Merging local maps from mapping devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,044, issued on June 2, was assigned to Niantic Spatial Inc. (San Francisco).

"Merging local maps from mapping devices" was invented by Anvith Ekkati (Mountain View, Calif.), Purna Sowmya Munukutla (Santa Clara, Calif.), Dharini Krishna (Santa Clara, Calif.), Peter James Turner (Redwood City, Calif.), Gandeevan Raghuraman (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Si ying Diana Hu (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented reality system generates computer-mediated reality on a client device. The client device has sensors including a camera configured to capture image data of an environment. The augmented reality system generate...