ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,550, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Generating augmented reality images for display on a mobile device based on ground truth image rendering" was invented by Aaron Matthew Rogan (Westminster, Colo.), Taehun Yoon (Superior, Colo.) and Gregory Mark Mahowald (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed herein for monitoring a location of a client device associated with a transportation service and generating augmented reality images for display on the client device. The systems and methods use sensor data from the client device and a device localization ...