ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,083, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Fill Gesellschaft m.b.H. (Gurten, Austria).

"Method and device for measuring a physical object" was invented by Fabian Oblinger (St. Georgen bei Obernberg, Austria) and Nikolaus Weinberger (Wippenham, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for measuring a physical object, wherein image data of uniquely identifiable points on the object is captured from different perspectives by means of at least one camera, and a spatial position of the uniquely identifiable points are ascertained from this image data, and at least one three-dimensional point cloud of the uniquely identifi...