US Patent Issued to FARO Technologies on Jan. 27 for "Image localization using a digital twin representation of an environment" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,786, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to FARO Technologies Inc. (Lake Mary, Fla.).

"Image localization using a digital twin representation of an environment" was invented by Denis Wohlfeld (Ludwigsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein provide a method that includes capturing, using a camera, a first image of an environment. The method further includes performing, by a processing system, a first positioning to establish a position of the first image in a layout of the environment. The method further includes detecting, by the processing system, a feature in the first image. The method further includes p...