ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,642, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to PREVU3D TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Montreal).

"Methods and systems for automated three-dimensional object detection and extraction" was invented by Alban Main de Boissiere (Montreal) and Maxime Herpin (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for extracting a 3D object from a 3D environment, including segmenting an initial 2D scene obtained from an initial viewpoint to identify a plurality of object instances; mapping a selected object instance to an initial subset of triangles underlying the selected object instance; generating additional viewpoints around the selected object instance, and for...