ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,278, issued on Nov. 11.

"Georeferencing a generated floorplan and generating structural models" was invented by Charles C. Carrington (Cocoa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for improved generation and georeferencing of floor plans are presented. In one embodiment, a method is presented that includes receiving images that depict sheets of a blueprint of a structure. Subsets of the images depicting floor sheets and elevation sheets may be identified. Exterior contours may be extracted from the images depicting floor sheets and elevation contours may be extracted from the images depicting elevation sheets. A cor...