ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,218, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MFTB Holdco Inc. (Seattle).

"Automated building information determinations from floor plan structural analysis" was invented by Lichen Wang (Bellevue, Wash.), Naji Khosravan (Seattle) and Sai Sateesh Gudapati (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for using computing devices to perform automated operations for determining matching buildings and using corresponding information in further automated manners, such as by determining buildings having similarities to an indicated target building based at least in part on building floor plans and/or other attrib...