ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,313, issued on March 24, was assigned to Fyusion Inc. (San Francisco).

"Damage detection from multi-view visual data" was invented by Stefan Johannes Josef Holzer (San Mateo, Calif.), Abhishek Kar (Berkeley, Calif.), Matteo Munaro (San Francisco), Pavel Hanchar (Minsk, Belarus), Radu Bogdan Rusu (San Francisco) and Santi Arano (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of images may be analyzed to determine an object model. The object model may have a plurality of components, and each of the images may correspond with one or more of the components. Component condition information may be determined for one or more of t...