ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,829, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Hover Inc. (San Francisco).

"Methods, storage media, and systems for generating a three-dimensional line segment" was invented by Hongyuan He (San Francisco), Harsh Barbhaiya (San Francisco) and Jeffrey Sommers (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, storage media, and systems for generating a three-dimensional line segment are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive a plurality of images; generate a point cloud based on the plurality of images; detect a two-dimensional line segment in a first image; project a set of 3d points of the plurality of 3d points as 2d points ...