US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on May 27 for "Systems and methods for optical image geometric modeling" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,177, issued on May 27, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for optical image geometric modeling" was invented by Saif Aati (Pasadena, Calif.) and Jean-Philippe Avouac (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Refining a rational functional model (RFM) by subdividing the multiple images into multiple groups of sub-images according to the imaging sensor, then performing the RFM refinement for each group separately and estimating a 3D transformation using the sub-images from the central sensor as a reference."

The patent was filed on Sept. 10, 2021, under Application No. 17...