ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,745, issued on Feb. 11.

"Pavement element annotation method for point cloud data with fusion of height, device for constructing and pre-annotation point cloud data with fusion of height, electronic device and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Qunshu Lin (Zhejiang, China), Minghao Liu (Zhejiang, China), Shigang Qi (Zhejiang, China), Xinjun Wu (Zhejiang, China), Yi Yang (Zhejiang, China), Chao Zhang (Zhejiang, China), Zijian Zhao (Zhejiang, China) and Qijun Shao (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a pavement element annotation method for point cloud data with fusion of height,...