ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,784, issued on May 13, was assigned to PassiveLogic Inc. (Holladay, Utah).
"Floor plan extraction" was invented by Justin Meiners (Murray, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A loop shape representing a floor plan is extracted from an imperfect or incomplete floor plan scan by applying building construction techniques to fill in missing information. The floor plan is shown to the user during all stages of assembly, allowing the user to make a purposeful mark on the display, changing how the incomplete scan is interpreted. Whenever a marking is placed the floor plan is regenerated."
The patent was filed on June 30, 2022, under Applic...