US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on May 27 for "Localization and mapping by a group of mobile communications devices" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,193, issued on May 27, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Localization and mapping by a group of mobile communications devices" was invented by Jose Araujo (Stockholm) and Volodya Grancharov (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile communications device for performing localization and mapping is disclosed, comprising a sensor operative to capture sensor data of its local environment, and operative to derive point-cloud data from the sensor data, which represents structural features of the local environment, determine a pose of the mobile communications device relative to a point-cloud m...