US Patent Issued to Bentley Systems on May 13 for "Systems, methods, and media for filtering points of a point cloud utilizing visibility factors to generate a model of a scene" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,815, issued on May 13, was assigned to Bentley Systems Inc. (Exton, Pa.).

"Systems, methods, and media for filtering points of a point cloud utilizing visibility factors to generate a model of a scene" was invented by Cyril Novel (Paris), Jean-Philippe Pons (Le Rouret, France) and Luc Robert (Valbonne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample may be generated for each point of a plurality of point clouds that represent a scene. A visibility ray may be created between each point of the plurality of point clouds and the one or more sources that generated the point. One or more sample, if any, that intersect a visibility ray may b...