US Patent Issued to Hover on Oct. 21 for "Systems and methods for generating three dimensional geometry" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,832, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hover Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for generating three dimensional geometry" was invented by Shaohui Sun (Mountain View, Calif.), Ioannis Pavlidis (Redwood City, Calif.) and Adam J. Altman (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for creating three dimensional models of building objects by creating a point cloud from a plurality of input images, defining edges of the building object's surfaces represented by the point cloud, creating simplified geometries of the building object's surfaces and constructing a building model based on the simpli...