ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,139, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MFTB Holdco Inc. (Seattle).

"Automated generation and presentation of visual data enhancements on camera view images captured in a building" was invented by Manjunath Narayana (Chino Hills, Calif.), Eric M. Penner (Centennial, Colo.), Ivaylo Boyadzhiev (Seattle) and Sing Bing Kang (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for using computing devices to perform automated operations for using generated building information to further generate and present visual data enhancements on images that are captured by and displayed on a mobile device in the building (e.g., co...