ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,098, issued on May 27, was assigned to Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Jiangsu Province, China).

"Method for multi-view point cloud registration for whole aircraft based on spherical harmonic feature (SHF)" was invented by Jun Wang (Jiangsu Province, China), Yuan Zhang (Jiangsu Province, China), Hu Li (Jiangsu Province, China) and Zikuan Li (Jiangsu Province, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a method for multi-view point cloud registration for a whole aircraft based on a spherical harmonic feature (SHF). Gaussian sphere projection is mainly performed on a local point cloud. An ...