ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,567, issued on July 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for tracking a controller" was invented by Ramesh Chandrasekhar (Encinitas, Calif.), Md Sazzadur Rahman (San Jose, Calif.), Martin Renschler (San Diego) and Ananthapadmanabhan Arasanipalai Kandhadai (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method by a wearable device is described. The method includes receiving geometric information from a controller. The geometric information includes a point cloud and a key frame of the controller. The method also includes receiving first six degree of freedom (6DoF) pose information from the controller. The m...