ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,282, issued on July 15, was assigned to SEESCAN INC. (San Diego).
"Natural voice utility asset annotation system" was invented by Mark S. Olsson (La Jolla, Calif.), Alexander L Warren (Escondido, Calif.) and Michael P. Nichols (Temecula, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for annotating, also known as tagging, visually identifiable objects using natural language (i.e. spoken voice) are provided. More specifically, but not exclusively, this disclosure relates to systems and methods for tagging identified objects related to underground utilities and assets, and communication systems. Once tagged, data representin...