ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,201, issued on April 7, was assigned to Reconstruct Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Interactive method and system for displaying measurements of objects and surfaces using co-registered images and 3D points" was invented by Jae Yong Lee (Urbana, Ill.) and Derek Hoiem (Urbana, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scene is displayed from a first view, control points are designated within the scene, and 3D positions of the control points are computed. Thereafter, the scene and each respective control point is displayed from a second view, and the locations of the control points are adjusted as necessary to correspond to their desired locat...