ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,134, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Joint camera and inertial measurement unit calibration" was invented by Igor Napolskikh (Plantation, Fla.), Ankur Gupta (Plantation, Fla.), Yu-Hsiang Huang (Plantation, Fla.), Mohamed Souiai (Plantation, Fla.) and Etienne Gregoire Grossman (Plantation, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for calibrating an augmented reality device using camera and inertial measurement unit data. In some implementations, a bundle adjustment process jointly optimizes or estimates st...