ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,380, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Hover Inc. (San Francsico, Canada).

"3-D reconstruction using augmented reality frameworks" was invented by Manish Upendran (San Francisco), William Castillo (San Francisco), Jena Dzitsiuk (San Francisco), Yunwen Zhou (San Francisco), Matthew Thomas (San Francisco), Giridhar Murali (San Francisco) and Atulya Shree (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method are provided for scaling a 3-D representation of a building structure. The method includes obtaining world map data including a first track of real-world poses for a plurality of images. The plurality of images comprises no...