US Patent Issued to Apple on May 12 for "Modeling an environment based on limited data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,379, issued on May 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Modeling an environment based on limited data" was invented by Daniel L. Kovacs (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mark E. Drummond (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Payal Jotwani (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a method includes obtaining environmental data corresponding to an environment. The method includes determining that the environmental data corresponding to the environment includes environmental data that corresponds to a first portion of an object that represents a sub-portion of the object and not an entirety of the object. The me...