US Patent Issued to Niantic Spatial on Jan. 13 for "Localization using audio and visual data" (American, British, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,599, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Niantic Spatial Inc. (San Francisco).

"Localization using audio and visual data" was invented by Karren Dai Yang (Medford, Mass.), Michael David Firman (London), Eric Brachmann (Hanover, Germany) and Clement Godard (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reference image and recorded sound of an environment of a client device are obtained. The recorded sound may be captured by a microphone of the client device in a period of time after generation of a localization sound by the client device. The location of the client device in the environment may be determined using the reference image ...