ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,645, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Mesh transformation with efficient depth reconstruction and filtering in passthrough augmented reality (AR) systems" was invented by Yingen Xiong (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining images of an environment captured by imaging sensors associated with a passthrough AR device and position data and depth data associated with the images. The method also includes generating a point cloud representative of the environment based on the images, position data, and depth data. The method further includes ...