ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,006, issued on May 20, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Egocentric human body pose tracking" was invented by Riku Arakawa (New York), Gurunandan Krishnan Gorumkonda (Kirkland, Wash.), Shree K. Nayar (New York) and Bing Zhou (Rye, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pose tracking system is provided. The pose tracking system includes an EMF tracking system having a user-worn head-mounted EMF source and one or more user-worn EMF tracking sensors attached to the wrists of the user. The EMF source is associated with a VIO tracking system such as AR glasses or the like. The pose tracking system determines a pose of the ...