US Patent Issued to MFTB Holdco on March 25 for "Automated tools for incremental generation of building mapping information" (Washington, Rhode Island, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,156, issued on March 25, was assigned to MFTB Holdco Inc. (Seattle).

"Automated tools for incremental generation of building mapping information" was invented by Zhiqiang Wan (Wyoming, R.I.), Will A. Hutchcroft (Seattle), Manjunath Narayana (Chino Hills, Calif.), Ivaylo Boyadzhiev (Seattle) and Yuguang Li (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for computing devices to perform automated operations related to using images acquired in a building as part of an automated generation process of a floor plan or other mapping information for the building, in some cases without using depth information from depth-sens...