ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,922, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Airbus Defence and Space SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Method for generating a model for representing relief by photogrammetry" was invented by Emmanuel Garcia (Toulouse, France) and Philippe Nonin (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a relief representation model using a plurality of N pairs of stereo images, each of the N pairs of stereo images being associated with a map of photogrammetric disparities which is obtained by correlation calculation based on the pair of stereo images in question, comprises: a calculation of maps of geometric disparities based on a pr...