ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,994, issued on April 8, was assigned to GEOMAGICAL LABS INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Virtual interaction with three-dimensional indoor room imagery" was invented by Brian Totty (Mountain View, Calif.), Yacine Alami (Mountain View, Calif.), Michael Otrada (Mountain View, Calif.), Qing Guo (Mountain View, Calif.), Hai Shang (Mountain View, Calif.), Aaron Shea (Mountain View, Calif.), Philip Guindi (Mountain View, Calif.), Paul Gauthier (Mountain View, Calif.), Jianfeng Yin (Mountain View, Calif.), Kevin Wong (Mountain View, Calif.) and Angus Dorbie (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method for virtual interacti...