ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,978, issued on July 28, was assigned to Hover Inc. (San Francisco).

"Methods, storage media, and systems for selecting an optimal image frame within a capture window" was invented by Matthew Thomas (Nashville, Tenn.) and Hongyuan He (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, storage media, and systems for selecting an optimal two-dimensional image frame within one or more capture windows for a three-dimensional reconstruction pipeline. The method may include generating one or more capture windows. Each capture window may be proximate to a detected actuation, relative to a first image frame, or a combination thereof. A plu...