US Patent Issued to MD ELEKTRONIK on Feb. 10 for "Device and method for optically capturing an object" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,728, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MD ELEKTRONIK GMBH (Waldkraiburg, Germany).

"Device and method for optically capturing an object" was invented by Christoph Riegl (Wasserburg am Inn, Germany), Helmut Harrer (Waldkraiburg, Germany), Robert Lemaire (Jettenbach, Germany), Stefan Perzl (Schwindegg, Germany) and Martin Gwiasda (Toeging, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capturing device for optically capturing an object to be checked includes a radiation source having a wall which encompasses a recording chamber. The radiation source is configured to emit at least infrared radiation when in a heated state. The wall has at le...