ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,754, issued on June 17, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"System and method for capturing a spatial orientation of a wearable device" was invented by Ahmet Firintepe (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for capturing a spatial orientation of a wearable device includes at least one capturing unit that is configured to capture image data in relation to the wearable device; and at least one processor unit that is configured to determine the spatial orientation of the wearable device based on the image data, using a recognition algorithm trained by way of deep learning."

The patent was filed on Sept. 29, ...