ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,134, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Southeast University (Jiangsu, China).
"Dynamic visualization method and device for earthquake disasters" was invented by Tong Guo (Jiangsu, China), Shuqi Yu (Jiangsu, China) and Minte Zhang (Jiangsu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application relates to a dynamic visualization method and device for earthquake disasters. The method comprises: acquiring initial point cloud data of buildings and scenes in a target area; acquiring shake displacement data varying with time of the buildings by simulating an earthquake excitation on the buildings and the scenes; performing voxel downsamplin...