ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,218, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Hover Inc. (San Francisco).

"Real-time processing of captured building imagery" was invented by William Castillo (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Manish Upendran (San Francisco), Ajay Mishra (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Adam J. Altman (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for guiding image capture of a subject by determining a location of the subject and presenting on a display graphical guides representative of perspective views of the subject to be captured. Images of the subject may then be captured and additional graphical guides are presented to the user for dis...