US Patent Issued to MACROPACE PRODUCTS on March 24 for "3-D prosthetic or object model file secure encapsulation in a non-distributable image rendering file format" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,734, issued on March 24, was assigned to MACROPACE PRODUCTS PTY LTD (Eastwood, Australia).

"3-D prosthetic or object model file secure encapsulation in a non-distributable image rendering file format" was invented by Michael John Sandow (Eastwood, Australia) and Sam Papas (Eastwood, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method and system for storing, sharing, rendering, and simulation of 3-dimensional digital data models so that the model cannot be copied or distributed or physically replicated and thus maintain the security of the model. Protecting a file containing digital data of a 3-dimensional rep...