ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,363, issued on June 17, was assigned to Trimble Inc. (Westminster, Colo.).
"Methods for geospatial positioning and portable positioning devices thereof" was invented by Charles Lemaire (Carquefou, France) and Clement Fouquet (Joinvelle le Pont, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a method and a positioning device for determining a geospatial position and a nature of an object. The method may include capturing, by an imaging device of the positioning device, at least one image of a surface. The captured image may be processed for identifying at least one cand...