US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Aug. 5 for "Floor plan generation for device visualization and use" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,257, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Floor plan generation for device visualization and use" was invented by Sven Eberhardt (Seattle), Clare Elizabeth Veladanda (Sunnyvale, Wash.), Akshay Kumar (Seattle), Aniruddha Basak (Seattle), Charles Edwin Ashton Brett (Seattle), William Evan Welbourne (Seattle) and Jatin Bajaj (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for floor plan generation for device visualization and use are disclosed. For example, image data may be utilized to segment a building from non-building elements in an image, and the outline of the building may ...