US Patent Issued to Mapsted on March 17 for "Method and system for automatically generating a map of an indoor space" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,205, issued on March 17, was assigned to Mapsted Corp. (Oakville, Canada).

"Method and system for automatically generating a map of an indoor space" was invented by Sean Huberman (Guelph, Canada), Jianfeng Hu (Mississauga, Canada) and Ahmed Mahmood (Milton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of generating a map for an indoor space are described. In one example, a raw digital representation of the indoor space is obtained and preprocessed by at least one of marking a region-of-interest (ROI) in the raw digital representation and classifying the indoor space into a space-category to obtain a preprocessed representation. Us...