ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,855, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Visual alignment of displayed virtual content" was invented by Robert Peter Viehauser (Bad Hofgastein, Austria) and Julia Hauptmann (Salzburg, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for aligning display of virtual content are provided. For example, a method can include obtaining an object 3D vertex position of a feature of a real world object in a 3D map of an environment, wherein the real world object is visible through a display, projecting, relative to an assumed eye position, an initial virtual content 3D vertex position representing a feat...