ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,333, issued on May 20, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).
"Method and apparatus for scanning and printing a 3D object" was invented by Alexander Ilic (Zurich) and Benedikt Koeppel (Zurich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smartphone may be freely moved in three dimensions as it captures a stream of images of an object. Multiple image frames may be captured in different orientations and distances from the object and combined into a composite image representing an three-dimensional image of the object. The image frames may be formed into the composite image based on representing features of each image frame as a set of ...