ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,575, issued on July 1, was assigned to 3D at Depth Inc. (Longmont, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for laser inspection and measurements" was invented by Carl W. Embry (Boulder, Colo.), Feldon M. Barlow Sr. (Richmond, Texas), Jonathan M. Banks (Longmont, Colo.) and Yann Morel (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods and systems for improved inspection, measurements, monitoring, and tracking of equipment installed underwater. They include structures or equipment installed in a nuclear reactor and fuel storage pools. This includes, but is not limited to an entire nuclear reactor pool, an entire ...