ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,178, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Room scan refinements" was invented by Feng Tang (Cupertino, Calif.), Joerg A. Liebelt (San Jose, Calif.), Yikang Liao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yang Yang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kai Kang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Afshin Dehghan (San Jose, Calif.), Aditya Sankar (Seattle) and Hongyu Xu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that present a live view of a room based on two-dimensional (2D) images obtained during a scan. Sensor data is obtained during a scan of a room of a physical environm...