US Patent Issued to W.W. Grainger on Feb. 18 for "System and method for providing three-dimensional, visual search" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,813, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to W.W. Grainger Inc. (Lake Forest, Ill.).

"System and method for providing three-dimensional, visual search" was invented by Fouad Bousetouane (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Srikanth Ojasve (Lake Forest, Ill.) and Nirav Saraiya (Lake Forest, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method determines that an object within an image frame being captured via use of an imaging system is an object of interest. The determined object of interest is used to extract from a three-dimensional information obtained via use of a three-dimensional (3D) data obtaining component of the imaging system a 3D informati...