ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,925, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Determining weights of points of a point cloud based on geometric features" was invented by Derik Schroeter (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one or more embodiments, operations may comprise obtaining a first point cloud. The operations also comprise performing segmentation of the first point cloud, the segmentation generating one or more clusters of points of the point cloud. The operations also comprise determining, for each respective cluster of the plurality of clusters, a respective geometric feature of a corresponding object ...