ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,117, issued on June 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Tracking in a moving platform" was invented by Joshua Aidan Elsdon (Zurich), David John McKinnon (Redmond, Wash.), Salim Sirtkaya (Redmond, Wash.), Marc Andre Leon Pollefeys (Zurich), Douglas Duane Berrett (Seattle), Yashar Bahman (Seattle) and Patrick Markus Misteli (Zurich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of tracking 3D position and orientation of an entity in a moving platform is described. The method comprises receiving data sensed by an inertial measurement unit mounted on the entity. Visual tracking data is also received, computed...