US Patent Issued to GeoSpan on March 3 for "Shared geographic information system for creation, change management and delivery of 3D structure models" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,899, issued on March 3, was assigned to GeoSpan Corp. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Shared geographic information system for creation, change management and delivery of 3D structure models" was invented by Theodore M. Lachinski (Andover, Minn.), Stephen Boggs (Fridley, Minn.), Nishalan Nair Revi Andran (Minneapolis) and Grant W. Effertz (Bloomington, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new generation 3D modeling system is described for the management of the 3D characteristics of man-made structures in a shared geographic information system (GIS) platform. The system accommodates the conversion of 2D GIS topology to 3D real-world topology...