ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,898, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Systems and methods utilizing machine vision and three-dimensional modeling techniques for surface matching" was invented by Ola El Bakry (Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Canada) and Jean-Sebastien Lemieux (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods utilizing machine vision and three-dimensional (3D) modeling techniques for surface matching are disclosed herein. The method obtains, by a 3D camera, a 3D image including one or more occurrence candidates of one or more objects present in a scene and ranks, via a processor, the one or more occ...