US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on July 14 for "Constructing compact three-dimensional building models" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,664, issued on July 14, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Constructing compact three-dimensional building models" was invented by Yaron Kanza (Fair Lawn, N.J.), Philip Brown (Westfield, N.J.), Velin Kounev (Weehawken, N.J.) and Arun Jotshi (Parsippany, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method performed by a processing system includes obtaining a light detecting and ranging point cloud of a building, where the point cloud includes a plurality of points, and where each point is associated with a set of (x,y,z) coordinates. A first point of the plurality of points is assigned to a subset of the plu...