ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,886, issued on July 7, was assigned to RDI TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Knoxville, Tenn.).

"Measuring dynamic motion in three axes using multiple cameras" was invented by Kenneth Ralph Piety (Knoxville, Tenn.), Jeffrey R. Hay (Prospect, Ky.), Mark William Slemp (Tellico Plains, Tenn.) and Douglas A. Mann (Farragut, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to perform measurements of vibratory motion in three axes using two or more cameras. The cameras are mounted in a fixed spatial relationship to each other and are calibrated such that internal camera distortion and external camera coordinate transformations are det...