ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,003, issued on May 13, was assigned to Zivid AS (Oslo, Norway).

"Method for determining one or more groups of exposure settings to use in a 3D image acquisition process" was invented by Oystein Skotheim (Oslo, Norway), Henrik Schumann-Olsen (Oslo, Norway), Alexey Stepanov (Oslo, Norway), Oyvind Janbu (Oslo, Norway), Martin Ingvaldsen (Oslo, Norway) and Jens T. Thielemann (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining one or more groups of exposure settings to use in a 3D image acquisition process carried out with an imaging system, the 3D image acquisition process comprising capturing one or more sets of image ...