US Patent Issued to Niantic on March 11 for "Maintaining object alignment in 3D map segments" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,254, issued on March 11, was assigned to Niantic Inc. (San Francisco).

"Maintaining object alignment in 3D map segments" was invented by Ben Benfold (Oxford, Great Britain), Victor Adrian Prisacariu (Oxford, Great Britain) and Daniel Knoblauch (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining a position for a virtual object is described. A location of a client device is determined, and, based on the determined location a set of map segments is retrieved. A virtual object is determined to be displayed on the client device. Relation vectors between the virtual object and each map segment of the retrieved set of map...