ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,752, issued on March 17, was assigned to City Furniture Inc. (Tamarac, Fla.).

"System and method for creating and furnishing digital models of indoor spaces" was invented by Andrew James Hill (Tamarac, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating a digital model of a space and modifying the digital model are described. In one aspect, a system includes one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform operations including: obtaining a point cloud representation of the space, the point cloud i...