US Patent Issued to Carnegie Mellon University on April 29 for "Methods and systems for geo-referencing mapping systems" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,406, issued on April 29, was assigned to Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh).

"Methods and systems for geo-referencing mapping systems" was invented by Ji Zhang (Pittsburgh), Calvin Wade Sheen (Chula Vista, Calif.) and Kevin Joseph Dowling (Gibsonia, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a trajectory dataset including a plurality of geospatial points forming a point cloud and acquired along a trajectory wherein for each of the plurality of geospatial points there is a defined an x-coordinate, a y-coordinate and a z-coordinate and at least one mapping device orientation attribute, segmenting the trajectory ...