ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,734, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to OBAYASHI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Difference recognition method and difference recognition system" was invented by Takuma Nakabayashi (Foster City, Calif.), Chih-Hung E. Yeh (Alameda, Calif.) and Anirban Roy (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A difference recognition method and a difference recognition system that correctly recognizes the latest progress status. A difference recognition system recognizes the latest progress status of a construction site from a difference, which indicates progress of a construction site. The difference recognition system includes a data management unit that ac...