ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,387, issued on July 21, was assigned to Nanjing Percipio Technology Ltd. (Nanjing, China).

"Depth data measuring head, computing device and measurement method" was invented by Minjie Wang (Shanghai) and Yushi Liang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A depth data measuring head (600, 700) comprising: a structured light projection apparatus (110, 610, 710) used for projecting, under the drive of a driving apparatus (114, 314) and at different projection angles, a beam having a texture to a measured space so as to form different textures on an object to be measured; and first and second image sensors (620, 630; 720, 730) that are ...