US Patent Issued to DUKE UNIVERSITY, RAMONA OPTICS on July 8 for "Feature-free photogrammetric 3D imaging with cameras under unconstrained motion" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,237, issued on July 8, was assigned to DUKE UNIVERSITY (Durham, N.C.) and RAMONA OPTICS INC. (Durham, N.C.).

"Feature-free photogrammetric 3D imaging with cameras under unconstrained motion" was invented by Kevin Zhou (Durham, N.C.), Colin Cooke (Durham, N.C.), Jaehee Park (Durham, N.C.), Ruobing Qian (Durham, N.C.), Roarke Horstmeyer (Durham, N.C.), Joseph Izatt (Durham, N.C.) and Sina Farsiu (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of mesoscopic photogrammetry can be carried out using a set of images captured from a camera on a mobile computing device. Upon receiving the set of images, the method generates a composite i...