US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 4 for "Toggling operating modes for generating 3D representations" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,471, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Toggling operating modes for generating 3D representations" was invented by Johan V. Hedberg (Foster City, Calif.), Corentin Cheron (Boulder, Colo.), Mukul Sati (San Jose, Calif.) and Kyle L. Simek (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that adjusts operating modes for generating three-dimensional (3D) representations of a physical environment. For example, an example process may include acquiring sensor data by the one or more sensors in a physical environment and operating ...