ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,403, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NFOLDROI PRODUCTS PTY LTD (Melbourne, Australia).

"Pattern matching system for automated cadastral epoch reference layer conflation" was invented by Paul Joyce (Melbourne, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for cadastral epoch conflation involving previous and subsequent cadastre epochs, each comprising a plurality of shapes calculates geometric characteristics for each polygon of each epoch, the geometric characteristics comprising at least one of area, perimeter, number of vertices, scale, orientation and irregularity, calculates geometric topologies for each epoch, the topology ...