ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,627, issued on March 17, was assigned to Abyss Solutions Pty Ltd (Homebush, Australia).

"Method and system for detecting physical features of objects" was invented by Suchet Bargoti (Homebush, Australia), Toby Francis Dunne (Homebush, Australia), Vsevolod Vlaskine (Homebush, Australia), Eric Leonard Ferguson (Homebush, Australia), Nasir Ahsan (Homebush, Australia), Masood Naqshbandi (Homebush, Australia) and Steven Potiris (Homebush, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer can operated, including detecting defects, or other physical features, of artificial objects. Image data is received of one or more artificial objects...