ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,936, issued on July 7, was assigned to COLLIN (Bagneux, France).

"Method for registering three-dimensional representations of an object on the object itself and device for providing navigation assistance in an object implementing said method" was invented by Fabrice Lagrandie (Bagneux, France), Stephane Mazalaigue (Bagneux, France) and Guillaume Kazmitcheff (Bagneux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A registration method includes a storage of two three-dimensional representations of an object and locations of at least three reference points of the object in these two three-dimensional representations; an angular registration of t...