ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,983, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Peridot Print LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Point cloud alignment" was invented by Juheon Lee (Palo Alto, Calif.), Juan Carlos Catana Salazar (Guadalajara, Mexico) and Jun Zeng (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of methods for point cloud alignment are described herein. In some examples, a method includes orienting a model point cloud or a scanned point cloud based on a set of initial orientations. In some examples, the method includes determining, using a first portion of a machine learning model, first features of the model point cloud and second features of the scanned po...