ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,957, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to KOH YOUNG TECHNOLOGY INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for determining three-dimensional shape of object" was invented by Chan Kwon Lee (Ansan-si, South Korea), Moon Young Jeon (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Deok Hwa Hong (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea) and Joong Ki Jeong (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure proposes a detachable second apparatus coupled to a first apparatus that determines a first three-dimensional shape of an object and configured to determine an angle of an upper surface of the object. The second apparatus includes a fi...