US Patent Issued to Georgetown University on Sept. 29 for "Document search for document retrieval using 3D model" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,330, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Georgetown University (Washington).

"Document search for document retrieval using 3D model" was invented by Cristopher Flagg (Annandale, Va.) and Ophir Frieder (Chevy Chase, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies are described for reconstructing physical objects which are preserved or represented in pictorial records. The reconstructed models can be three-dimensional (3D) point clouds and can be compared to existing physical models and/or other reconstructed models based on physical geometry. The 3D point cloud models can be encoded into one or more latent space feature vector repres...