US Patent Issued to Hover on March 18 for "Method and system for displaying and navigating an optimal multi-dimensional building model" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,573, issued on March 18, was assigned to Hover Inc. (San Francisco).

"Method and system for displaying and navigating an optimal multi-dimensional building model" was invented by Manish Upendran (San Francisco) and Adam J. Altman (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Visualizing three dimensional content is complicated by display platforms capable of more degrees of freedom to display the content than interface tools have to navigate that content. Disclosed are methods and systems for displaying select portions of the content and generating virtual camera positions with associated look angles for the select portions, such as...