ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,603, issued on July 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Localization based on detected spatial features" was invented by Anna L. Brewer (Cupertino, Calif.), Devin W. Chalmers (Oakland, Calif.) and Thomas G. Salter (Foster City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a method of localizing a device is performed at a device including one or more processors and non-transitory memory. The method includes obtaining an estimate of a pose of the device in an environment. The method includes obtaining an environmental model of the environment including a spatial feature in the environment defined by a f...