ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,171, issued on April 7, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Systems and methods for 3D point cloud densification" was invented by Eduardo Corral-Soto (Toronto) and Bingbing Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, methods, and media are disclosed for domain adaptation using data densification. Example embodiments described herein receives LiDAR 3D point clouds from a source-domain and introduces interpolated 3D points inferred by a trained deep learning neural network to output a denser version of the input 3D point cloud with increased resolution. The trained domain adaptation netwo...