ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,535, issued on June 17, was assigned to HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Measuring system for measuring a surface of an object or skin of a person" was invented by Gemma Taverni (Zurich, Switzerland), Hakki Karaman (Uster, Switzerland), Stefan Geissbuhler (Langenthal, Switzerland), Simon Mark (Thal, Switzerland), Zheng Yang (Friedrichshafen, Germany), Burkhard Bockem (Jonen AG, Switzerland), Lukas Buchmann (Zurich, Switzerland), Sandra Tobler (Berneck, Switzerland), Jan Gluckert (Lindau, Germany) and Markus Wettstein (Wadenswil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measuring system for measuring an ob...