ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,548, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Global Scanning Denmark A/S (Allerod, Denmark).

"Scanning device" was invented by Bo Kjaer Olsen (Allerod, Denmark), Soren Thuun Jensen (Allerod, Denmark) and Nis Engholm (Allerod, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method and a scanning device for digital image scanning of a surface of an object. The scanning device comprising a light source for illuminating the object. The scanning device comprising a first image sensor configured for capturing a first set of images of a first region of the object, where the first region is illuminated by the light source. The scanning de...