ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,706, issued on May 20, was assigned to Varjo Technologies Oy (Helsinki).
"Employing patterned light to determine relative poses" was invented by Ari Antti Erik Peuhkurinen (Helsinki) and Urho Konttori (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes devices, each including an illuminator, sensor and processor, where the processor of a given device is configured to: project a pattern of light onto surroundings, while detecting reflections of the pattern of light onto the surroundings, determine shapes of surfaces present in the surroundings and distances of the surfaces from a pose of the given device; obtain pattern informa...