ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,835, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to APPLICATIONS MOBILES OVERVIEW INC. (Montreal).

"Method and system for automatic characterization of a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud" was invented by Sherif Esmat Omar Abuelwafa (Montreal), Laurent Juppe (Montreal), Asma Iben Houriia (Montreal), Annie-Pier Lavallee (Montreal), Marie-Eve Desrochers (Montreal) and Bryan Martin (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of and systems for characterization of a 3D point cloud are disclosed. The method comprises accessing a 3D point cloud, the 3D point cloud being a set of data points representative of the object, determining, based on the...