ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,772, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to OKUMA Corp. (Niwa-Gun, Japan).
"Three-dimensional shape measuring system" was invented by Akihito Kataoka (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional shape measuring system includes a controller and a camera which images a target object to acquire a base image, in which the controller is configured to previously store three-dimensional shape data for a plurality of known structures, identify at least one structure from the plurality of known structure as at least one reference structure, compute at least one extruded region formed by extruding the at least one reference str...