ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,390, issued on June 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"So-map: a semantic-aware algorithm for optimizing the representation structure of Octomaps" was invented by Werner Spolidoro Freund (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Pablo Nascimento da Silva (Niteroi, Brazil), Vinicius Michel Gottin (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Paulo Abelha Ferreira (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Julia Drummond Noce (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for decoupling information into multiple levels of detail based on semantics while providing a compact global representation structure. A tree-based graph represents ...