ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,759, issued on June 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Identifying a position of a controllable device using a wearable device" was invented by Shengzhi Wu (Shenzhen, China) and Alexander James Faaborg (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, a method of identifying a position of a controllable device includes receiving visual data from an image sensor on a wearable device, generating, by an object recognition module, identification data based on the visual data, and identifying, using the identification data, a first three-dimensional (3D) map from a map database that stores...