ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,819, issued on May 13, was assigned to SPLUNK Inc. (San Francisco).

"Mesh updates via mesh frustum cutting" was invented by Devin Bhushan (San Jose, Calif.), Seunghee Han (San Jose, Calif.), Caelin Thomas Jackson-King (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jamie Kuppel (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Stanislav Yazhenskikh (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jim Jiaming Zhu (Scarborough, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations or examples set forth a method for scanning a three-dimensional (3D) environment. The method includes generating, based on sensor data captured by a depth sensor on a device, one or more 3D meshes representing a physical space...