ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,373, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"3D environment reconstruction for persistent object tracking" was invented by Siddha Ganju (Santa Clara, Calif.), Elad Mentovich (Tel aviv, Israel), Marco Foco (Ticino, Switzerland) and Elena Oleynikova (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, a 3D representation of an environment may be generated from sensor data, with objects being detected in the environment using the sensor data and stored as items that can be tracked and located within the 3D representation. The 3D representation of the environment and item information may be used to ...