ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,830, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Lineage Logistics LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Generating mappings of physical spaces from point cloud data" was invented by Christopher Frank Eckman (San Francisco) and Brady Michael Lowe (Pocatello, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This specification describes systems and methods for generating a mapping of a physical space from point cloud data for the physical space. The methods can include receiving the point cloud data for the physical space, filtering the point cloud data to, at least, remove sparse points from the point cloud data, aligning the point cloud data along x, y, and z dimension...