US Patent Issued to Niantic on July 1 for "Location determination and mapping with 3D line junctions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,137, issued on July 1, was assigned to Niantic Inc. (San Francisco).

"Location determination and mapping with 3D line junctions" was invented by Anvith Ekkati (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rong Yuan (Foster City, Calif.), Siddhant Jain (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Si Ying Diana Hu (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining a location of a client device is described herein. In particular, a client device receives images captured by a camera at the client device. The client device identifies features in the images. The features may be line junctions, lines, curves, or any other features found in images...