US Patent Issued to HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER on Dec. 16 for "Filtering reflected points in a 3D LiDAR scan by joint evaluation of LiDAR data and image data with a reflection point classifier" (Austrian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,671, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Filtering reflected points in a 3D LiDAR scan by joint evaluation of LiDAR data and image data with a reflection point classifier" was invented by Bernhard Metzler (Dornbirn, Austria) and Reto Stutz (Au, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "3D LiDAR scanning for generating a 3D point cloud of an environment, e.g. for surveying a construction side or for building surveying. Data points within the 3D laser scan data originating from multiple reflections within the environment, referred to as reflection points, are automatically ident...