ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,713, issued on July 15, was assigned to Signetron Inc. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for determining building internal framework from external imagery" was invented by Avideh Zakhor (Berkeley, Calif.) and Zixian Zang (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for defining a building internal framework from external imagery are presented, the method including: receiving a number of raw images of a building; processing the number of raw images of the building to establish a number of facades; and determining the building internal framework for each of the number of facades. In some embodiments, the processing t...