US Patent Issued to Bridon International on July 8 for "Three-dimensional optical measuring mobile apparatus for ropes with rope attachment device" (British, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,555, issued on July 8, was assigned to Bridon International Ltd. (Doncaster, Great Britain).

"Three-dimensional optical measuring mobile apparatus for ropes with rope attachment device" was invented by Cristiano Bonetti (Doncaster, Great Britain), Bart Vanlandeghem (Kruisem, Belgium) and Christopher John Newton (Banbury, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A calibrated three-dimensional optical measuring apparatus for the three-dimensional measurement of geometric parameters of a rope has a frame defining and arranged around a rope receiving cavity. A plurality of image acquisition devices is configured to acquire a plurality...