ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,305, issued on March 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and electronic device for generating point cloud" was invented by Dongchan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dongnam Byun (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaewook Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jinyoung Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and an electronic device for generating a point cloud. The method includes obtaining, from at least one sensor of the electronic device, first sensing data corresponding to an object, obtaining a first point cloud corresponding to the object, based on the first sen...