US Patent Issued to Ohio University on May 27 for "Determining position using computer vision, lidar, and trilateration" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,196, issued on May 27, was assigned to Ohio University (Athens, Ohio).

"Determining position using computer vision, lidar, and trilateration" was invented by Jay Paul Wilhelm (Athens, Ohio) and Travis Wade Moleski (Nelsonville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer program products for determining the position of a first point in space. A three-dimensional point cloud is generated that comprises a plurality of data points each defining a range from the first point in space to another point in space in a region around the first point. A two-dimensional image is captured of an area including at least some o...