ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,537, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to STREEM LLC (Portland, Ore.).

"Machine learning training and layout estimation" was invented by Huapeng Su (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Artificial neural networks (ANN) may be trained to output estimated floor plans from 3D spaces that would be challenging or impossible for existing techniques to estimate. In embodiments, an ANN may be trained using a supervised approach where top-down views of 3D meshes or point clouds are provided to the ANN as input, with ground truth floor plans provided as output for comparison. A suitably large training set may be used to fully train the AN...