ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,372, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Baker Hughes Holdings LLC (Houston).

"Interactive three-dimensional representations of objects" was invented by Clark Alexander Bendall (Syracuse, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving data characterizing a target surface extending in three dimensions. The method also includes rendering in a graphical user interface display space, a first visual representation including a two-dimensional image of a first portion of the target surface, and a second visual representation including a three-dimensional representation of at least a subset of the first portion of the target ...