ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,649, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Localization for rendering digital content" was invented by Jack Erdozain Jr. (San Francisco) and Travis J. McQueen (Lee, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for conveying directionality and distance information from a transmitter to a receiver within the coordinate system of the transmitter. Conveying the directionality and distance information to the receiver may, for example, reduce computational loads at the receiver. The signal from the transmitter may include information for rendering digital content and information indicating the d...