ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,746, issued on March 11, was assigned to Insight Direct USA Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).
"System and method for determining paths between locations in a physical system" was invented by Michael Griffin (Wayland, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pathways between reference locations in a physical system are generated based on a layout table. Nodes and edges of the directed graph are associated with cell locations of the layout table. The cell locations define features of the reference locations. Parameters of the nodes and edges are defined based on descriptors recalled from the cells associated with the nodes and edges. The nodes and ...