ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,238, issued on March 4, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Data processing device, data processing method and recording medium" was invented by Taro Takechi (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing device processes measurement data measured by a sensor that measures three-dimensional coordinates of a measurement object from a first position and a second position which are different. The data processing device includes a controller. The controller acquires measurement data of three or more planes of the measurement object from the sensor, the planes having different normal vectors. The controller fin...