ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,050, issued on May 19, was assigned to ECOPIA TECH Corp. (Toronto).

"Annotation tools for reconstructing multi-floor buildings" was invented by Yuanming Shu (Toronto), Shuo Tan (Campbell, Calif.), Dawei Zai (Toronto) and Tuan Zhao (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for generating geometric models of buildings from multiview imagery are provided. An example method involves displaying at least a first image and a second image that depict the building from different points of view, providing functionality for a user to annotate, with reference to at least the first image and the second image, a three-dimensional ...