US Patent Issued to Hover on March 4 for "Systems and methods for pitch determination" (California, New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,163, issued on March 4, was assigned to Hover Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for pitch determination" was invented by William Castillo (Belmont, Calif.), Giridhar Murali (San Francisco), Brandon Scott (New York), Kai Jia (San Francisco), Jeffrey Sommers (Mountain View, Calif.) and Dario Rethage (Kendall Park, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for pitch determination. An example method includes obtaining an image depicting a structure, the image being captured via a user device positioned proximate to the structure. The image is segmented to identify, at least, a roof facet of the structu...