US Patent Issued to BrightAI on July 21 for "Method and system for combining multiple scans into a single data set" (Minnesota, Tennessee, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,547, issued on July 21, was assigned to BrightAI Corp. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and system for combining multiple scans into a single data set" was invented by Ryan James Goss (Prior Lake, Minn.), Graham David Ferris (Savage, Minn.), Mark Norgren (Savage, Minn.), Robert Parker (Hillsborough, Calif.), Daniel John Benjamin (Savage, Minn.) and John Tafoya (Franklin, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved method can be obtained for combining multiple data sets of a single subject to form a single representation of the subject, such as an environment. The method uses a small set of alignment points and scanning the environme...