ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,076, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Ninox 360 LLC (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Surface inspection system and method" was invented by Peter Abeles (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface inspection system and method includes a mobile computing device having a processor, an optical assembly, a memory device, and interfaces in communication with the processor, the memory storing instructions that when executed cause the system to perform the operations of generating a series of images representing a surface, receiving a selection of a region of interest in the series of images, generating a virtual high-resolution...