ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,220, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to METAL INDUSTRIES RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

"System and method for sensing underwater point cloud" was invented by Wei-Te Chen (Changhua County, Taiwan), Shang-Ching Chuang (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Chen-Shun Chen (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Pin-Xian Lin (Chiayi City, Taiwan), Chen-Han Kuo (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Yun-Hui He (Miaoli County, Taiwan) and Yao-Ming Wang (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention proposes a method for sensing underwater point cloud. The method includes: acquiring point cloud information through an underwater s...