ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,641, issued on July 15, was assigned to Hover Inc. (San Francisco).
"3D building analyzer" was invented by Derek Halliday (Oakland, Calif.), Antonio Carlos Marques da Silva Junior (Concord, Calif.), Roberto Klein (Oakland, Calif.) and Adam J. Altman (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method is provided for constructing a labeled and dimensioned multidimensional (e.g., 3D) building model from building object imagery (e.g., ground-level imagery). The method begins by retrieve building object imagery, the building object imagery collected based on directed capture with a mobile device. The method continues by con...