ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,249, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Incremental surface completion" was invented by Oleksandr Bailo (Amsterdam), Mohsen Ghafoorian (Diemen, Netherlands), Jihong Ju (Amsterdam) and Gerhard Reitmayr (Del Mar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described herein for reconstructing a three-dimensional (3D) scene of an environment. For example, a computing device can obtain a 3D reconstruction of the 3D scene, wherein the 3D reconstruction of the 3D scene includes reconstructions of geometry information of objects included in one or more images of the 3D scene, determine one or ...