ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,753, issued on March 17, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Phased capture assessment and feedback for mobile dimensioning" was invented by Rochana Pathiraja (Dampelessa, Sri Lanka), Raveen T. Thrimawithana (Pannipitiya, Sri Lanka) and Sanduni Karunatilaka (Kottawa, Sri Lanka).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in a computing device includes: capturing, via a depth sensor having a field of view, (i) a point cloud depicting an object resting on a support surface, and (ii) a two-dimensional image depicting the object and the support surface; based on the point cloud, detecting a portion of the object; ...