ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,918, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"System and method for surface properties reconstruction and positioning of digitized 3D objects" was invented by Dmitriy Evgenyevich Piskunov (Moscow), Anastasiia Sergeevna Suvorina (Moscow), Aleksei Mikhailovich Gruzdev (Moscow), Alexey Aleksandrovich Osipov (Moscow) and Daria Andreevna Fedorova (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a virtual scene comprising one or more 3D objects is provided. The method includes creating a 3D model of a real world 3D scene, capturing an image of the real world 3D scene by a physica...