ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,083, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional data generation method and three-dimensional data generation device" was invented by Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, Japan), Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka, Japan), Toru Matsunobu (Osaka, Japan), Satoshi Yoshikawa (Hyogo, Japan) and Tatsuya Koyama (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional data creation method for use in a vehicle including a sensor and a data receiver that transmits and receives three-dimensional data to and from an external device. The three-dimensiona...