US Patent Issued to Insightful Mechanisms on Sept. 1 for "Montaging system" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,822, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Insightful Mechanisms LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Montaging system" was invented by Hector H. Gonzalez-Banos (San Mateo, Calif.), Ramya Narasimha (San Francisco) and Max McFarland (Lake Oswego, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Montaging techniques are disclosed that utilize non-sequential visual inertial odometry (VIO) performed on non-sequential/unordered capture data collected by a capture apparatus. The capture apparatus is carried by an observer/inspector at a site during a walkthrough/inspection. The capture apparatus comprises one or more cameras and an inertial measurement unit (IMU...