ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,519, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Niantic Spatial Inc. (San Francisco).

"Synchronizing client device with independent sensor" was invented by Christopher Shaw (London), Victor Adrian Prisacariu (Oxford, Great Britain) and Daniyar Turmukhambetov (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a first sensor system and a second sensor system. The first sensor system includes a first internal clock, a first sensor configured to generate data describing an environment, and a Universal Serial Bus (USB) module. The second sensor system includes a second internal clock and a controller configured to perform a precision time ...