ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,037, issued on March 11, was assigned to Open Space Labs Inc. (San Francisco).

"Rendering depth-based three-dimensional model with integrated image frames" was invented by Michael Ben Fleischman (Los Angeles), Jeevan James Kalanithi (San Francisco), Gabriel Hein (Albany, Calif.) and Elliott St. George Wilson Kember (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system aligns a 3D model of an environment with image frames of the environment and generates a visualization interface that displays a portion of the 3D model and a corresponding image frame. The system receives LIDAR data collected in the environment and generates a 3D mod...