ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,979, issued on July 29, was assigned to INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE INFORMATICA (ITI) (Valencia, Spain).

"Method and device for determining the orientation of a physical object in space" was invented by Juan Carlos Perez Cortes (Valencia, Spain), Omar Del Tejo Catala (Valencia, Spain), Javier Perez Soler (Castellon, Spain), Jose Luis Guardiola Garcia (Valencia, Spain), Alberto J. Perez Jimenez (Valencia, Spain) and David Millan Escriva (Valencia, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the orientation of a physical object in space which determines the orientation of the object from the images captured by a set of c...