ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,326, issued on July 1, was assigned to ZHEJIANG LAB (Hangzhou, China).

"Point cloud matching method and apparatus, electronic apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Wei Hua (Hangzhou, China), Qibo Qiu (Hangzhou, China), Jin Shi (Hangzhou, China) and Haiming Gao (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A point cloud matching method and apparatus, an electronic apparatus, and a storage medium are provided. The point cloud matching method includes: dividing a to-be-matched point cloud into a plurality of matched point cloud patches, and inputting the plurality of matched point cloud patches to a pre-trained point cloud fea...