US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on July 29 for "Augmented reality based geolocalization of images" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,998, issued on July 29, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Augmented reality based geolocalization of images" was invented by Juan David Hincapie Ramos (Palo Alto, Calif.), Justin Paul Quimby (Oakland, Calif.) and Marek Lech Gorecki (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a location at which an unobstructed view of a target location is obtained, includes capturing an image of an environment which includes a target location; accessing target location data, wherein the target location data comprises information associated with the environment and the target location; determining, bas...