ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,047, issued on June 3.

"Visual data management system and method" was invented by Sarah Nancy Staab (Washington) and Joseph Gerard Longo (Nokesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for creating, storing, interacting, and manipulating a digital facility is disclosed. One or more computing platform(s) may be configured to electronically receive a plurality of machine-readable sensor data of a physical facility having multiple 3D objects. One or more computing platform(s) may be configured to electronically process the plurality of machine-readable sensor data to output a machine-readable point cloud model configu...