ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,654, issued on June 17, was assigned to Airbnb Inc. (San Francisco).

"Accessibility measurement system" was invented by Ortal Yahdav (San Rafael, Calif.), Hilary Catherine Sun (San Francisco) and Aishwarya Nirmal (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to analyze at least one sensor of a computing device to determine that the computing device is in a substantially flat position on the first surface, activate a camera comprising a depth sensor, and detect a second surface in a camera view of the camera. The computing device further analyzes pixel measurements from the depth sensor in a predefined area ...