ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,486, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Generation and rendering of extended-view geometries in video see-through (VST) augmented reality (AR) systems" was invented by Yingen Xiong (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining multiple see-through image frames of an environment around an augmented reality (AR) device using multiple imaging sensors of the AR device. The method also includes generating a depth map based on the see-through image frames and generating a three-dimensional (3D) representation of the environment based on the depth map. ...