US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Jan. 28 for "Enabling a local mixed reality map to remain de-coupled from a global mixed reality map" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,880, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Enabling a local mixed reality map to remain de-coupled from a global mixed reality map" was invented by Joshua Aidan Elsdon (Bellevue, Wash.), Marc Andre Leon Pollefeys (Zurich) and David John McKinnon (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for enabling a library of local maps to remain de-coupled from a global map are disclosed. An MR system is determined to be located on a platform that is currently moving or that has an ability to readily move. That platform's type is determined. Based on the determined type for the pl...