US Patent Issued to Procore Technologies on June 24 for "Computer systems and methods for navigating building information models in an augmented environment" (California, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,478, issued on June 24, was assigned to Procore Technologies Inc. (Carpinteria, Calif.).

"Computer systems and methods for navigating building information models in an augmented environment" was invented by Kevin McKee (Del Mar, Calif.), Jon Hoover (Camarillo, Calif.), Christopher Bindloss (Santa Barbara, Calif.), David McCool (Carpinteria, Calif.), Winson Chu (Alameda, Calif.) and Christopher Myers (Council, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device is configured to determine an initial position and orientation of the computing device within a virtual 3D model of a real-world environment, (ii) capture sensor data that ...