US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on March 11 for "Visual inertial odometry localization using sparse sensors" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,092, issued on March 11, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Visual inertial odometry localization using sparse sensors" was invented by Amr Suleiman (Sammamish, Wash.), Anastasios Mourikis (Seattle), Armin Alaghi (Kirkland, Wash.), Andrew Samuel Berkovich (Sammamish, Wash.), Shlomo Alkalay (Redmond, Wash.), Muzaffer Kal (Redmond, Wash.), Vincent Lee (Seattle) and Richard Andrew Newcombe (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a computing system accesses a set of 3D locations associated with features in an environment previously captured by a camera from a previous camera pose. T...