ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,734, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Stratovan Corp. (Davis, Calif.) and BeamReaders (Kennewick, Wash.).

"System and method of landmark-based segmentation and transformation of physical structures" was invented by David Wiley (Davis, Calif.) and David Hatcher (Kennewick, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations include a method of mapping and segmenting a physical object by obtaining a plurality of two-dimensional images of a physical object, generating a three-dimensional object model of the physical object based at least partially on one or more of the two-dimensional images, obtaining a plurality of landmark...