ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,851, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Willow Garage LLC (San Francisco).
"Point cloud data hierarchy" was invented by Wim Meeussen (Redwood City, Calif.), Eitan Marder-Eppstein (San Francisco) and Stuart Glaser (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment is directed to a method for presenting views of a very large point data set, comprising: storing data on a storage system that is representative of a point cloud comprising a very large number of associated points; automatically and deterministically organizing the data into an octree hierarchy of data sectors, each of which is representative of one or more of th...