ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,262, issued on June 23, was assigned to DENSO WAVE Inc. (Aichi-Pref., Japan).

"Three-dimensional measurement apparatus" was invented by Yusuke Mitani (Chita-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional measurement apparatus includes: a projection device projecting a predetermined stripe pattern on a measurement object; an imaging device capturing an image of the measurement object on which the predetermined stripe pattern is projected; a measurement device measuring a three-dimensional shape of the measurement object using a phase shift method by determining stripe pattern information from the image captured by the i...