US Patent Issued to Niantic Spatial on Oct. 21 for "Classifying real-world points of interest in a parallel virtual world" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,406, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Niantic Spatial Inc. (San Francisco).

"Classifying real-world points of interest in a parallel virtual world" was invented by Herbert Law (San Jose, Calif.), Yuanjian Carla Li (San Francisco), Yuan Zhang (San Francisco) and Hang Tan (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine learning model classifies points of interest in a parallel reality game hosted by a server. The server generates training data sets that include verified properties for points of interest. The machine learning model may predict unverified properties for points of interest. Players in the parallel reality game m...