ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,004, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SpeedBot Robotics Co. Ltd. (Changsha, China).

"Three-dimensional (3D) structured light camera based method and system for measuring gap of vehicle body" was invented by Junjie Deng (Changsha, China) and Qing Li (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional (3D) structured light camera based method and system for measuring a gap of a vehicle body is provided. The method includes: obtaining point cloud data obtained by a 3D structured light camera scanning the gap of the measured vehicle body; with a group of point cloud data of the gap of the measured vehicle body in a tra...