US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 16 for "Method for representing virtual information in a view of a real environment" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,636, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method for representing virtual information in a view of a real environment" was invented by Peter Meier (Los Gatos, Calif.), Michael Kuhn (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Frank Angermann (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for representing virtual information in a view of a real environment comprises providing a virtual object having a global position and orientation with respect to a geographic global coordinate system, with first pose data on the global position and orientation of the virtual object, in a database of a server, taking an image of a real env...