ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,214, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to 3SHAPE A/S (Copenhagen K, Denmark).
"Focus scanning apparatus recording color" was invented by Bo Esbech (Gentofte, Denmark), Christian Romer Rosberg (Bronshoj, Denmark), Mike Van Der Poel (Rodovre, Denmark), Rasmus Kjaer (Copenhagen K, Denmark), Michael Vinther (Copenhagen S, Denmark) and Karl-Josef Hollenbeck (Copenhagen O, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a scanner system and a method for recording surface geometry and surface color of an object where both surface geometry information and surface color information for a block of the image sensor pixels at least partly fro...