ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,907, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Object aided localization without complete object information" was invented by Mandar Narsinh Kulkarni (Bridgewater, N.J.), Muryong Kim (Madison, N.J.) and Jubin Jose (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems are provided for localization of an apparatus. For instance, a process can include: obtaining a map of an environment, the map including a map point representing an object in the environment; obtaining image data including the object in the environment, wherein the image data is associated with a camera pose; obtaining point inform...