US Patent Issued to LEICA GEOSYSTEMS on March 17 for "Laser scan data modeling with sparse datasets" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,670, issued on March 17, was assigned to LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AG (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Laser scan data modeling with sparse datasets" was invented by Gregory Walsh (Walnut Creek, Calif.) and Krishnendu Shekhar (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include obtaining three-dimensional coordinate points and a two-dimensional image representing an environment and objects in the environment. The method may include segmenting the image into image segments and obtaining a pixel selection in the image. The method may include generating an image segment frustum corresponding to a particular image segment shape that ...