ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,678, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Hong Kong Centre for Logistics Robotics Ltd. (New Territories, Hong Kong).
"Model alignment method" was invented by Yunhui Liu (New Territories, Hong Kong), Xueyan Tang (New Territories, Hong Kong), Wenguan Wang (New Territories, Hong Kong) and Chongshan Liu (New Territories, Hong Kong).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aligning a source and target model includes calculating a shape descriptor for a plurality of edge points, grouping the edge points by shape descriptor and selecting representative points for each group. Target and source point pair features (PPFs) are calculated between pairs of re...