US Patent Issued to Exaactly on Sept. 22 for "Systems and methods for capturing image data for mapping" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,867, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Exaactly Ltd. (Leeds, Great Britain).

"Systems and methods for capturing image data for mapping" was invented by David Fowler (London) and Benjamin Richards (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of collecting visual data using a mobile image capture device is provided. The method comprises the steps of: capturing image data with the mobile image capture device and associating time and location data with each image; and storing the image data and associated time and location data. The method further comprises monitoring the position and orientation of the image capture device. The me...