ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,181, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"3D reconstruction using 3D triplane representation" was invented by Yinhao Zhu (La Jolla, Calif.), Rajeev Yasarla (San Diego), Haiyan Wang (Mountain View, Calif.), Shizhong Steve Han (San Diego), Yunxiao Shi (San Diego), Hong Cai (San Diego) and Fatih Murat Porikli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for generation of a 3D representation of a scene includes a memory for storing a plurality of images depicting a scene; and processing circuitry in communication with the memory. The processing circuitry is configured to generate a depth map for the plur...