ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,310, issued on June 10, was assigned to Hover Inc. (San Francisco).
"Method for generating roof outlines from lateral images" was invented by Ajay Mishra (Palo Alto, Calif.), William Castillo (San Carlos, Calif.), A. J. Altman (San Francisco) and Manish Upendran (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system generates an outline of a roof of a structure based on a set of lateral images depicting the structure. For each image in the set of lateral images, one or more rooflines corresponding to the roof of the structure are determined. The computer system determines how the rooflines connect to one another. Based on th...