ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,303, issued on April 29, was assigned to Koninklijke KPN N.V. (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Rendering a virtual object in spatial alignment with a pose of an electronic device" was invented by Alexandre da Silva Pratas Gabriel (The Hague, Netherlands), Hans Maarten Stokking (Wateringen, Netherlands) and Tessa Esmee Klunder (Almere, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of rendering a virtual object by a rendering device includes establishing a communication channel with a mobile device; determining or receiving initi...