ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,391, issued on June 10, was assigned to Verity AG (Zurich, Switzerland).
"System and method for matching of image features with indistinguishable landmarks" was invented by Markus Hehn (Zurich, Switzerland), Fabio Rossetto (Zurich, Switzerland) and Luciano Beffa (Zurich, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present invention there is provide a method a method for matching features in an image with landmark representations in a landmark map, the method comprising: providing at least one image; extracting from the image one or more features; providing a landmark map comprising a list of landmark representations, ...