ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,411, issued on Dec. 2.

"Methods and control systems that use dimensional-transform-based three-dimensional searching and voxel mapping" was invented by Zhijing George Mou (Seattle) and Qingqing Xiao (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current document is directed to systems and methods that incorporate a dimensional transform that maps a 3D space to a one-dimensional space with an implicit recursive hierarchical structure that preserves 3D neighborhoods. A regional or neighborhood search for points in a 3D subspace is reduced, by the dimensional transform, to one or more searches in the transformed 1D space. The search is perf...