US Patent Issued to Snap on Sept. 9 for "Augmented three-dimensional structure generation" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,338, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Augmented three-dimensional structure generation" was invented by Richard McCormack (Princes Risborough, Great Britain) and Edward James Rosten (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and method for generating three-dimensional (3D) maps of physical structures are provided. A 3D mapping system can be configured to generate a 3D map of a physical structures using image data sets generated from different user devices. The mapping system can implement reference geometry into a 3D structure generation pipeline to generate more accurate 3D models."

The pat...