ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,246, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Natural language 3D data searching" was invented by Dane Marshal Mason (San Francisco) and Nigel Allan Carson Clarke (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes incorporating information from multi-modal embeddings in an indexed point-cloud data structure with three-dimensional (3D) spatial information for a captured scene. The method also includes performing at least one of querying or retrieving 3D-point-cloud data based on a user input including at least one of natural language or image references. The method also i...