ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,599, issued on July 21, was assigned to BEIJING OCGEN TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Data acquisition apparatus and method for determining pose thereof" was invented by Pingyuan Ji (Beijing), Jun Wu (Beijing), Xiaokang He (Beijing) and Yajia Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data acquisition apparatus and method for determining a pose thereof. The disclosed data acquisition apparatus includes a mounting component and the sensor fixed to the mounting component. The sensor is oriented at a preset pose relative to the ground and configured to scan the surrounding environment of the data acquisition apparatus at a scanning ...