US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on Nov. 3 for "Three-dimensional topographical surface capture device" (Colorado, California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,100, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Three-dimensional topographical surface capture device" was invented by Fred Charles Thomas III (Fort Collins, Colo.), Joshua Alan St. John (San Diego), Santiago Garcia-Reyero Vinas (San Diego), Owen P. Columbus (Spring, Texas) and Christian M. Damir (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional (3D) topographical surface capture device includes a housing, light sources mounted around a perimeter of the housing, and an imaging subassembly including a polarization-state viewer and an image capture sensor directed inward...