ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,676, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Xiamen University (Xiamen, China) and Shanghaitech University (Shanghai).

"System and method of capturing large scale scenes using wearable inertial measurement devices and light detection and ranging sensors" was invented by Chenglu Wen (Xiamen, China), Yudi Dai (Xiamen, China), Lan Xu (Shanghai), Cheng Wang (Xiamen, China) and Jingyi Yu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods of capturing motions of humans in a scene. A plurality of IMU devices and a LiDAR sensor are mounted on a human. IMU data is captured by the IMU devices and LiDAR data is captu...