US Patent Issued to HEXAGON INNOVATION HUB on April 14 for "Measuring system providing shape from shading" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,589, issued on April 14, was assigned to HEXAGON INNOVATION HUB GMBH (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Measuring system providing shape from shading" was invented by Zheng Yang (Friedrichshafen, Germany), Johan Stigwall (St.Gallen, Switzerland) and Thomas Jensen (Rorschach, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measuring system for measuring an object, the measuring system comprising a measuring device and a controlling and processing unit. The measuring device comprises at least one camera, a first optical sensor and a second optical sensor, the first optical sensor provides a first field of view and is configured for collecting fi...