ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,856, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Point cloud adjacency-map and hash-map accelerator" was invented by Gurpreet S. Kalsi (Bangalore, India), Om Ji Omer (Bangalore, India), Prashant Laddha (Bengaluru, India), Kamlesh R. Pillai (Bangalore, India), Anirud Thyagharajan (Bengaluru, India), Meenal Kudalkar (Bangalore, India), Krishnan Ananthanarayanan (Palakkad, India) and Sreenivas Subramoney (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of an apparatus comprises a hardware accelerator to perform a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud data access operation, and circuitry coupled to the...