ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,349, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to PepsiCo Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Generating and employing computer vision models of a structural environment" was invented by Jingting Hui (Plano, Texas), Tsz-Ching Yuan (Valhalla, N.Y.), Nien-Han Tan (Chicago) and Greg Bellon (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for generating and employing computer vision models of a structural environment. Real video is received of physical actions being performed in a physical space within the structural environment. A virtual replica of the physical space and objects within the physical space are generated, based on environmen...