Pictometry International Corp. has been awarded a foundational United States patent for its technology and systems used to accurately calculate the area of vertical and pitched surfaces from oblique aerial photography.
Patent No. 8,233,666—granted on July 31—has implications for the roof measurement services industry, which is utilized by insurers, independent adjusters, contractors, and homeowners to quickly obtain precise details about rooftop surface areas.
Pictometry's roof measurement reports provide easy, on-demand access to professionally-created profiles that can be requested for nearly any property from a smartphone or computer. Each includes precise measurements of the roof presented with high-resolution oblique aerial images, line drawings and multiple tables of results.
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