ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,222, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Applied Research Associates Inc. (Albuquerque, N.M.).
"Landmark configuration matcher" was invented by Dirk B. Warnaar (Raleigh, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for determining a list of geographic location candidates from an image of an environment are described. Open source data indicative of the earth's surface may be obtained and combined into grids to create region data to gain a representation of the earth's surface within each grid cell. An image of an environment may be obtained from an unknown camera. Image characteristics may be compared to the region data t...