ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,649, issued on June 3, was assigned to Movidius Ltd. (Schiphol-Rijk, Netherlands).
"Path planning using sparse volumetric data" was invented by David Macdara Moloney (Dublin) and Jonathan David Byrne (Ashbourne, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A view of geometry captured in image data generated by an imaging sensor is compared with a description of the geometry in a volumetric data structure. The volumetric data structure describes the volume at a plurality of levels of detail and includes entries describing voxels defining subvolumes of the volume at multiple levels of detail. The volumetric data structure includes a first ent...