US Patent Issued on Sept. 9 for "Machine vision determination of location based on recognized surface features and use thereof to support augmented reality" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,300, issued on Sept. 9.

"Machine vision determination of location based on recognized surface features and use thereof to support augmented reality" was invented by Michael Gervautz (Pressbaum, Austria), Zsolt Szalavari (Vienna), Emilio Maggio (Vienna), Alessandro Boccalatte (Vienna), Michal Havlena (Vienna) and Jiri Horner (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method can support image based determination of mobile device location through recognition of surface features for a previously scanned physical environment. The system and method can also support authoring and positioning of augmented reality features in an aut...