ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,831, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Orbbec Inc. (Shenzhen, China).

"Indoor structured reconstruction method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by YueYu Lin (Shenzhen, China), Haoli Zhou (Shenzhen, China) and Lin Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: obtaining and splicing a plurality of frames of point cloud data to obtain a complete point cloud model of an indoor structure; extracting point cloud plane features corresponding to the complete point cloud model, and classifying the point cloud plane features into indoor structure types comprising a floor, a wall, and a c...