US Patent Issued to UnitX on March 17 for "Multichannel LED light to enable photometric stereo for 3D reconstruction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,286, issued on March 17, was assigned to UnitX Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multichannel LED light to enable photometric stereo for 3D reconstruction" was invented by Tommy Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Killian Weber (Santa Clara, Calif.), Roman Balak (San Jose, Calif.) and Hill Ma (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a light system is provided that allows for increased reliability in directly detecting defects in components by capturing multiple different images of the component under different lighting conditions and using a photometric stereo technique to reconstruct a three-dimensional (3D) model of th...