ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,403, issued on May 12, was assigned to FARO Technologies Inc. (Lake Mary, Fla.).

"Detecting objects of interests in panoramic images of an environment" was invented by Heiko Bauer (Moeglingen, Germany) and Changyu Du (Offenbach am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein provide a method for generating a three-dimensional (3D) model of an object of interest using panoramic images of an environment. The method includes detecting, using a trained machine learning model, the object of interest in a panoramic image of the environment. The method further includes determining 3D coordinates for the object of in...