US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on May 13 for "Methods and systems to facilitate passive relocalization using three-dimensional maps" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,918, issued on May 13, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Methods and systems to facilitate passive relocalization using three-dimensional maps" was invented by Armin Alaghi (Kirkland, 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: "A method includes accessing map data of an area of a real environment, the map data comprising three-dimensional feature descriptors describing features visible in the real environment. A plurality of map packages are generated based on the map data, wherein each of the map packages (1) cor...