ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,589, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Generating semantically-labelled three-dimensional models" was invented by Yan Deng (La Jolla, Calif.), Ze Zhang (San Diego), Michel Adib Sarkis (San Diego) and Ning Bi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described herein for generating one or more three-dimensional models. For instance, a method for generating one or more three-dimensional models is provided. The method may include obtaining a plurality of images of an object; obtaining a plurality of segmentation masks associated with the plurality of images, each segmentation mask o...