US Patent Issued to Snap on April 21 for "In-vehicle tracking for extended reality" (Austrian, Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,077, issued on April 21, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"In-vehicle tracking for extended reality" was invented by Jeroen Diederik Hol (Hengelo, Netherlands), Matthias Kalkgruber (Vienna), Scott Myers (Orange, Calif.) and Simon Schreiberhuber (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples disclosed herein describe visual-inertial tracking techniques for extended reality (XR) devices. According to some example methods, an XR device is located in, and movable relative to, a vehicle. The XR device generates device tracking data and accesses vehicle tracking data. The vehicle tracking data is generated by an external...