ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,996, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Field calibration of an augmented reality device" was invented by Clemens Birklbauer (Vienna), Georg Halmetschlager-Funek (Vienna), Matthias Kalkgruber (Vienna), Tiago Miguel Pereira Torres (Vienna) and Simon Schreiberhuber (Vienna).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for recalibrating an augmented reality (AR) device includes generating and storing a ground truth map of a real-world environment when the AR device is operating with a high likelihood of having an accurate factory calibration. During operation of the AR device, new map data is generated for the...