Niantic Patents

Patent portfolio assigned to Niantic (verified via public assignee records). US AR / location-based games company (Pokemon GO, Ingress) and Lightship developer platform. 'Customers' here are named Lightship launch brand partners listed on Niantic's own news page. Patents confirmed via Google Patents results assigned to Niantic, Inc. (US8968099B1 transporting virtual objects in a parallel reality game; US8687021B2; US20230410349A1). Exact total not visible. Competitors not collected from a fetched source (TechCrunch noted Facebook/Apple AR platforms but no clean competitor list fetched).