ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,347, issued on Aug. 26.
"Automated update of geometrical digital representation" was invented by Heiko Bauer (Moeglingen, Germany), Tobias Boehret (Aidlingen, Germany) and Denis Wohlfeld (Ludwigsburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for updating a digital representation of an environment includes capturing an image of a portion of the environment using a change-detection device. Further, a corresponding digital data is determined that represents the portion in the digital representation of the environment. A change in the portion is detected by comparing the image with the corresponding digital data. In response to th...