ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,824, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MEDIT CORP. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Three-dimensional modeling method and apparatus using same" was invented by Dong Hoon Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Won Hoon Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Beom Sik Suh (Seoul, South Korea) and In Chan Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional modeling method according to the present invention includes: a scan step of scanning a subject to be filtered so as to obtain at least one set of image data; a step of determining a reference color or a reference color range from a color included in the image data obtained in the scan step and fi...