ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,746, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Immersive visualization for condition assessment of civil structures" was invented by Furkan Luleci (Orlando, Fla.) and F. Necati Catbas (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein relates to a system and method for assessing a condition of at least one civil structure utilizing at least one visualization platform (e.g., a Virtual Reality platform and/or an Augmented Reality platform). Additionally, in embodiments, sensorial data of the at least one civil structure may be fused within the at least one visu...