ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,567, issued on June 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Spatial localization design service" was invented by Michael Ebstyne (Seattle), Pedro Urbina Escos (Seattle), Emanuel Shalev (Sammamish, Wash.), Alex Kipman (Bellevue, Wash.), Yuri Pekelny (Seattle) and Jonathan Chi Hang Chan (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synthetic world interface may be used to model digital environments, sensors, and motions for the evaluation, development, and improvement of localization algorithms. A synthetic data cloud service with a library of sensor primitives, motion generators, and environments with pro...