ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,091, issued on Dec. 2.
"Method and system for fingerprinting survey" was invented by Mostafa Elhoushi (Calgary, Canada), Amr Al-Hamad (Calgary, Canada), Abdelrahman Ali (Calgary, Canada), Jacques Georgy (Calgary, Canada), Chris Goodall (Calgary, Canada) and Anas Mahmoud (Calgary, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A survey for building fingerprint maps for an area may be achieved using map information to generate a grid of nodes and links, then transforming the grid to a directed graph, generating an improved tour that entirely traverses the directed graph and providing at least one survey route based at least in part on the tour t...