ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,018, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY (Xuzhou, China).

"Mine digital model construction method based on three-dimensional point cloud database" was invented by Wei Yang (Xuzhou, China), Wenyuan Wang (Xuzhou, China), Yingte Feng (Xuzhou, China), Wenxiao Zhang (Xuzhou, China) and Zening Wei (Xuzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mine digital model construction method based on a three-dimensional point cloud database is disclosed. Mine data resources are collected, valid coordinate point position information is extracted according to point cloud data extraction standards, and a mine thr...