ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,810, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Beijing OCGen Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for modeling object, storage medium, and vehicle control method" was invented by Zhichao Li (Beijing) and Naiyan Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for modeling an object. The method includes: obtaining a first group of point cloud frames associated with surroundings of a perception system; generating a hierarchical representation of an object in the surroundings based on the first group of point cloud frames; obtaining, from each frame of point cloud, a second gro...