US Patent Issued to Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik on July 22 for "Method and apparatus for the contactless measurement of objects" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,559, issued on July 22, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH (Oberkochen, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for the contactless measurement of objects" was invented by Niklas Mevenkamp (Jena, Germany) and Aksel Gohnermeier (Oberkochen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are provided to perform contactless measurement of an object with a measuring camera. The method includes producing an uninterrupted relative motion between the measuring camera and a surface of the object. A plurality of images of the surface of the object are recorded during the relative motion, each image showing a diffe...