ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,128, issued on April 21, was assigned to Charles River Analytics Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Method and system for measuring coplanar point distances using an RGB-D camera" was invented by Min T. Kim (Lexington, Mass.) and Stan German (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and software are described which enable robust measurement of distances between 3D points, such as for pupillary distance (PD) of a wearer of corrective lenses that are known to be coplanar from a color-and-depth camera, e.g., a red-green-blue-depth (RGB-D) camera. Examples can provide a late fusion pipeline that first detects and tracks 2D landmar...