US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, TOYOTA JIDOSHA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Jan. 20 for "Hybrid geometric primitive representation for point clouds" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,845, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Hybrid geometric primitive representation for point clouds" was invented by Xiangru Huang (Zheijang, China), Marianne Arriola (Cambridge, Mass.), Yue Wang (Cambridge, Mass.), Vitor Campagnolo Guizilini (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rares Andrei Ambrus (San Francisco) and Justin Solomon (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a visual representation of an environment based on a point cloud includes hierarchically proc...