ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,134, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to INUITIVE LTD. (Ra'anana, Israel).

"Pattern projecting apparatus for use in a three-dimensional imaging arrangement" was invented by Pavel Grinberg (Netanya, Israel), Alan Geller (Kfar Yona, Israel) and Mishel Ivgi (Yehud-Monoson, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pattern projector is disclosed. The pattern projector comprises a light source, a projection lens, a mask and configured to enable the at least one projection lens to illuminate a target while projecting the pre-defined pattern thereat, and at least one holder, and wherein the pattern projector is characterized in that the at lea...