US Patent Issued to ONXMAPS on April 15 for "Methods and systems for providing a real-time viewshed visualization" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,523, issued on April 15, was assigned to ONXMAPS INC. (Missoula, Mont.).

"Methods and systems for providing a real-time viewshed visualization" was invented by Bert Jeffrey Lutzenberger (Hood River, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and systems for providing a real-time viewshed visualization. Provided here is a method for generating viewshed map for one or more client nodes, comprising (a) receiving a first set light source data associated with an area; (b) obtaining a set of elevation data associated with the area; (c) generating a shadow map based at least in part on the first set light sou...