ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,747, issued on June 17, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).
"System and method for dimensioning target objects" was invented by Raveen T. Thrimawithana (Pannipitiya, Sri Lanka).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising obtaining, from a sensor, depth data representing a target object; selecting a model to fit to the depth data; for each data point in the depth data: defining a ray from a location of the sensor to the data point; and determining an error based on a distance from the data point to the model along the ray; when the depth data does not meet a similarity threshold for the model based on ...