US Patent Issued on Oct. 28 for "Spacecraft system for generating a 3-D map of an object in near real-time under non-ideal lighting condititons" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,215, issued on Oct. 28.

"Spacecraft system for generating a 3-D map of an object in near real-time under non-ideal lighting condititons" was invented by Michael Klug (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Joseph Vermeersch (Hermosa Beach, Calif.), Justin Pank (El Segundo, Calif.), Scott Plantenga (El Segundo, Calif.), Brayamh Lopez (El Segundo, Calif.), Scott Dow (El Segundo, Calif.) and Adriel Bustamante (Jurupa Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for generating a 3D image map comprises a camera, mounted to a spacecraft, configured to capture plurality of images of an object from a plurality of positions about the object. A...