ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,577, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Universal tracking module" was invented by Jason Andrew Higgins (Seattle), Lorenz Henric Jentz (Seattle), Nicholas Friele Everist (Seattle) and Khaled Boulos (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a universal tracking module (UTM) capable of tracking six degrees of freedom of objects. In artificial reality environments, six degrees of freedom tracking refers to the ability to track an object moving and rotating freely in three-dimensional space along three axes of movement and rotation. Six...