ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,588, issued on April 14, was assigned to TWINPORT360 HOLDING B.V. (Varsseveld, Netherlands).

"Device and method for determining the three-dimensional geometry of an individual object" was invented by Raymond Wentink (Marienvelde, Netherlands) and Roy Joling (Hengelo, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for determining the three-dimensional geometry of an individual object includes a supplier, a line projection, an image capturing system, and a processing unit connected to the first image capturing system for receiving the first signal.The processing unit is configured to determine, for each image from the image captu...