ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,435, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MFTB Holdco Inc. (Seattle).

"Automated mapping information generation from analysis of building photos" was invented by Manjunath Narayana (Chino Hills, Calif.) and Ivaylo Boyadzhiev (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for using computing devices to perform automated operations to generate mapping information via analysis of visual data of photos of a defined area, and for using the generated mapping information in further automated manners, including to display the generated mapping information via various types of visualizations corresponding graphical user interfac...