ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,901, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Bending-assisted calibration for extended reality tracking" was invented by Thomas Faeulhammer (Vienna), Matthias Kalkgruber (Vienna), Thomas Muttenthaler (Vienna), Tiago Miguel Pereira Torres (Vienna) and Daniel Wolf (Modling, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bending data is used to facilitate tracking operations of an extended reality (XR) device, such as hand tracking or other object tracking operations. The XR device obtains bending data indicative of bending of the XR device to accommodate a body part of a user wearing the XR device. The XR device d...