US Patent Issued to Lineage Logistics on March 25 for "Point cloud filtering" (California, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,501, issued on March 25, was assigned to Lineage Logistics LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Point cloud filtering" was invented by Christopher Frank Eckman (San Francisco), Brady Michael Lowe (Pocatello, Idaho) and Alexander Hall (Rexburg, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This specification describes systems and methods for refining point cloud data. Methods can include receiving point cloud data for a physical space, iteratively selecting points along an x, y, and z dimension, clustering the selected points into 2D histograms, determining a slope value for each 2D histogram, and removing, based on the slope value exceeding a predetermine...