ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,362, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to LexisNexis Risk Solutions FL Inc. (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Modeling planar surfaces using direct plane fitting" was invented by Victor Palmer (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosed technology are directed to using pixel data from two or images of the same real-world region to determine the orientation of substantially planar surfaces in those images. The disclosed technology may be utilized to generate positions and/or orientations of planar surfaces based on multiple 2D images of the planar surface. Implementations can include modeling a planar surface, which can inclu...