ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,276, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Imetrum Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Non-contact deformation monitoring system" was invented by Christopher John Setchell (Bristol, Great Britain), David John Griffin (Bristol, Great Britain) and Nicholas Dominic Southerden Burn (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deformation monitoring system for measuring deformation of an object, the system comprising: a first camera arranged to capture a first image of an object; a second camera arranged to capture a second image of the object, the second camera being in a known orientation relative to the first camera; and a control...