ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,120, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to KOH YOUNG TECHNOLOGY INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for measuring a three dimensional shape" was invented by Seung-Jun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Kwangill Koh (Seoul, South Korea), Moon-Young Jeon (Seoul, South Korea), Sang-Kyu Yun (Chungju-si, South Korea), Hong-Min Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jung Hur (Bucheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an apparatus and a method for measuring a three dimensional shape with improved accuracy. The apparatus includes a stage, at least one lighting unit, a plurality of image pickup units and a control unit. The sta...