ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,342, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Embedding vectors for three-dimensional modeling" was invented by Florian Maximilian Langer (Cambridge, Great Britain), Georgi Dikov (Amsterdam), Jihong Ju (Amsterdam), Gerhard Reitmayr (Del Mar, Calif.) and Mohsen Ghafoorian (Diemen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described herein for generating embedding vectors. For instance, a method for generating embedding vectors is provided. The method may include mapping, using a machine-learning encoder, a plurality of query point clouds and a plurality of sample point clouds associated ...