ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,833, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Willow Garage LLC (San Francisco).
"Point cloud data hierarchy" was invented by Stuart Glaser (San Francisco), Wim Meeussen (Redwood City, Calif.) and Eitan Marder-Eppstein (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment is directed to a system for presenting views of a very large point data set, comprising: a storage system comprising data representing a point cloud comprising a very large number of associated points; a controller operatively coupled to the storage cluster and configured to automatically and deterministically organize the point data into an octree hierarchy of dat...