US Patent Issued to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN on March 4 for "Systems and methods for point cloud registration" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,185, issued on March 4, was assigned to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for point cloud registration" was invented by Minghan Zhu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Maani Ghaffari (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Huei Peng (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for point cloud processing with an equivariant neural network and implicit shape learning that may produce correspondence-free registration. The systems and methods may provide for feature space preservation with the same rotation operation as a Euclidean input space, due to the equivariance property, which m...