ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,033, issued on July 1, was assigned to MFTB Holdco Inc. (Seattle).

"Automated inter-image analysis of multiple building images for building floor plan generation" was invented by Yuguang Li (Seattle), Will A. Hutchcroft (Seattle) and Sing Bing Kang (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for automated operations to analyze visual data from images acquired in multiple rooms of a building to generate multiple types of building information (e.g., to include a floor plan for the building), such as by simultaneously or otherwise concurrently analyzing groups of three or more images having at least pairwise v...