US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 24 for "Sharing neighboring map data across devices" (Washington, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,143, issued on June 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Sharing neighboring map data across devices" was invented by Ethan Eade (Pittsburgh), Jeroen Vanturennout (Snohomish, Wash.), Jonathan Lyons (Kirkland, Wash.), David Fields (Kirkland, Wash.), Gavin Dean Lazarow (Redmond, Wash.) and Tushar Cyril Bhatnagar (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device and method are provided for transmitting a relevant subset of map data, called a neighborhood, to enable mutual spatial understanding by multiple display devices around a target virtual location to display a shared hologram in the sa...