ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,775, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for obtaining 3D information of vehicle" was invented by Yiqiang Chen (Shenzhen, China), Jie Zhu (Shenzhen, China) and Lijun Xue (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for obtaining 3D information of a vehicle are provided. The method includes: first determining a body boundary line of a first vehicle, and then determining an observation angle and/or an orientation angle of the first vehicle based on the body boundary line."

The patent was filed on Sept. 2, 2022, under Applicat...