US Patent Issued to Imperial College Innovations on Sept. 23 for "Attachment for use with a device to scan a surface and a device for the same" (British, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,707, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Imperial College Innovations Ltd (London).

"Attachment for use with a device to scan a surface and a device for the same" was invented by Anthony Bull (London), Pierluigi Cuomo (Florence, Italy), Marco Hanaman (Florence, Italy) and Shuqiao Xie (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attachment for use with a device to scan a surface, for example a bony surface, the attachment comprising: a first housing portion configured to releasably secure a device comprising a camera, a second housing portion connected to the first housing portion and having a wall defining an internal region of the sec...