US Patent Issued to Niantic Spatial on Oct. 7 for "Estimating pose for a client device using a pose prior model" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,140, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Niantic Spatial Inc. (San Francisco).

"Estimating pose for a client device using a pose prior model" was invented by Ben Benfold (Oxford, Great Britain) and Victor Adrian Prisacariu (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system uses a pose prior model and a pose objective function to estimate the pose of a client device. A pose prior model is a model for prior information known about client devices and their poses without reference to a particular client device and its pose data. The online system receives pose data from a client device and computes an estimated pose for ...