ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,590, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Devices and methods for visual localization" was invented by Nathan Piasco (Boulogne Billancourt, France), Dzmitry Tsishkou (Boulogne Billancourt, France), Tao Yin (Shenzhen, China) and Arthur Moreau (Boulogne Billancourt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device is provided for supporting a mobile device to perform a visual localization in a target environment. The computing device is configured to obtain and modify one or more 3D models of the target environment to generate a set of 3D models. The computing device is further con...