ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,646, issued on July 21, was assigned to Evident Corp. (Nagano, Japan).

"Measurement method, measurement device, and recording medium" was invented by Hidehiro Miyayashiki (Akishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measurement method includes a generation step, a region detection step, an image display step, a point input step, and a measurement step. Three-dimensional image data including three-dimensional coordinates of two or more points on a subject are generated in the generation step. Two or more feature regions on the subject are detected on the basis of the three-dimensional image data in the region detection step. An i...