ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,989, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to OPXION TECHNOLOGY INC. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Optical scanning system for non-destructively acquiring three-dimensional structure of object" was invented by Feng-Yu Chang (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Wen-Ju Chen (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Ming-Feng Wu (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Po-Hsu Su (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Cheng-Yu Lu (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Meng-Tsan Tsai (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical scanning system for non-destructively acquiring a three-dimensional structure of an object includes an optical image processing device and an optical scanning...