US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on March 3 for "Multipath artifact avoidance in mobile dimensioning" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,210, issued on March 3, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Multipath artifact avoidance in mobile dimensioning" was invented by Raghavendra Tenkasi Shankar (Manorville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in a computing device includes: capturing, via a depth sensor, a first point cloud depicting an object; determining, from the first point cloud, a first attribute of a plane corresponding to a surface of the object; monitoring, via a motion sensor, an orientation of the depth sensor; in response to detecting a change in the orientation that meets a threshold, capturing a second point cloud depic...