US Patent Issued to KCI HOLDINGS on Nov. 3 for "Systems and methods for assessing deviations of a surface from a design plan" (Maryland, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,164, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to KCI HOLDINGS INC. (Sparks, Md.).

"Systems and methods for assessing deviations of a surface from a design plan" was invented by Karl Keller (Sparks, Md.) and James W. Clay III (Lawrenceville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for assessing deviations of a surface from a design plan are provided. Disclosed embodiments may involve receiving, from a scanning system, a point cloud associated with a surface, the point cloud including a discrete set of data points. Disclosed embodiments may involve sorting, using a k-dimensional tree, and downsampling, using voxels, the discrete se...