ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,638, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Object tracking and detection in augmented reality applications" was invented by Volodya Grancharov (Solna, Sweden), Harald Pobloth (Taby, Sweden) and Sigurdur Sverrisson (Kungsangen, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Object tracking for augmented reality involves determining a location of an object in a current frame (10) of a video stream based on object feature representations extracted from different locations in the current frame (10) and object feature representations belonging to a model of the object. The model comprises at least ...