ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,332, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Open Space Labs Inc. (San Francisco).

"Machine learning based object identification using scaled diagram and three-dimensional model" was invented by Michael Ben Fleischman (San Francisco), Gabriel Hein (Albany, Calif.), Thomas Friel Allen (El Cerrito, Calif.) and Abraham Botros (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system automatically identifies objects in an environment based on a walkthrough video and an annotated floorplan of the environment. The annotated floorplan indicates locations and types of objects that are expected to be in the environment. The system receives the walkth...