ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,262, issued on March 24, was assigned to Bentley Systems Inc. (Exton, Pa.).

"Geographically guided generation of realistic 2D renders of 3D infrastructure models" was invented by Louis-Philippe Asselin (Quebec, Canada) and Andre Villemaire (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In example embodiments, a visualization application uses geographically relevant style images as guidance to automatically generate realistic 2D renders of a 3D infrastructure model. The application generates a synthetic render of the 3D infrastructure model and retrieves a set of style images that correspond to a geographics position associated with ...