ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,616, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Semantic guidance for 3D reconstruction" was invented by Sato Hiroyuki (Tokyo) and Uragaki Keishiro (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for reconstructing a 3D model is disclosed. The device includes: a camera; and a processor configured to: determine a class of a subject; capture one or more images of the subject by using the camera; extract semantic information from the one or more images based on the determined class; update the 3D model by using the one or more images; estimate incomplete semantic parts of the 3D model; and presen...