US Patent Issued to ROVCO on July 8 for "Surveying system for surveying in harsh environments" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,572, issued on July 8, was assigned to ROVCO Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Surveying system for surveying in harsh environments" was invented by Iain Wallace (Bristol, Great Britain), Lyndon Hill (Bristol, Great Britain), Pep Lluis Negre Carrasco (Bristol, Great Britain) and Nicholas Read (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system which includes a mobile device and a server. The mobile device captures images of the survey site. A pose sensor detects the pose of the mobile device. The captured images are transferred to a data processor running a 3D reconstruction algorithm. The 3D reconstruction algorithm generat...