ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,623, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Five AI Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Structure annotation" was invented by Robert Chandler (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Thomas Westmacott (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of creating one or more annotated perception inputs, the method comprising, in an annotation computer system: receiving a plurality of captured frames, each frame comprising a set of 3D structure points, in which at least a portion of a common structure component is captured; computing a reference position within at least one reference frame of the plurality of frame...