ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,427, issued on July 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Probabilistic approach to unifying representations for robotic mapping" was invented by Jungseok Hong (Minneapolis), Suveer Garg (New York) and Ibrahim Volkan Isler (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable mediums for evaluating a reliability of three-dimensional shape predictions. In some embodiments, a method includes obtaining a scene representation including one or more images, estimating semantic information of partially-observed objects in the scene rep...