US Patent Issued to UT-Battelle on Sept. 9 for "Conflation of geospatial points of interest and ground-level imagery" (Tennessee, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,375, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Conflation of geospatial points of interest and ground-level imagery" was invented by Debraj De (Knoxville, Tenn.), Rutuja Gurav (Riverside, Calif.), Junchuan Fan (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Gautam Thakur (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described that include accessing information about points of interest and images of scenes within the area of interest; encoding the information about each scene image as a respective scene-image vector; encoding the information about each point of interest as a respective point-of-interest vector;...