ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,560, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Dynamic initialization of 3DOF AR tracking system" was invented by Jeroen Diederik Hol (Hengelo, Netherlands) and Matthias Kalkgruber (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for dynamically initializing a 3 degrees of freedom (3DOF) tracking device is described. In one aspect, the method includes accessing a gyroscope signal from a gyroscope of the 3DOF tracking device, accessing an accelerometer signal from an accelerometer of the 3DOF tracking device, determining an initial state includes a combination of an initial orientation, an initial position,...