US Patent Issued to Hover on July 1 for "Directed image capture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,857, issued on July 1, was assigned to Hover Inc. (San Francisco).

"Directed image capture" was invented by William Castillo (Belmont, Calif.), Adam J. Altman (San Francisco), Ioannis Pavlidis (Redwood City, Calif.), Sarthak Sahu (San Francisco) and Manish Upendran (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for directed image capture of a subject of interest, such as a physical building. Directed image capture can produce higher quality images such as content more centrally located within an image frame (or an associated viewing device or other display), higher quality images have greater value for...