ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,243, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Wuhan Optics Valley Zoyon Science and Technology Co. Ltd. (Wuhan, China).

"Precision three-dimensional pavement faulting measurement method and apparatus" was invented by Hong Lin (Wuhan, China), Min Cao (Wuhan, China), Yi Lu (Wuhan, China), Xinlin Wang (Wuhan, China), Xuan Qu (Wuhan, China), Hui Li (Wuhan, China) and Xiuwen Hu (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A precision three-dimensional pavement faulting measurement method includes: acquiring three-dimensional pavement contour data; based on the three-dimensional pavement contour data, obtaining a contour reference surface and a ...