ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,701, issued on May 20, was assigned to Cognex Corp..
"Methods and apparatus for determining volumes of 3D images" was invented by Daniel Alejandro Moreno (Northbridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques described herein relate to methods, apparatus, and computer readable media configured to determine an estimated volume of an object captured by a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud. A 3D point cloud comprising a plurality of 3D points and a reference plane in spatial relation to the 3D point cloud is received. A 2D grid of bins is configured along the reference plane, wherein each bin of the 2D grid comprises a length...