ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,259, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS (Nanjing, China).
"Method for measuring distance between trace lines of three-dimensional braided material" was invented by Jun Wang (Nanjing, China), Zhongde Shan (Nanjing, China), Dawei Li (Nanjing, China) and Li Dai (Nanjing, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for measuring a distance between trace lines of a 3D braided material, including: (S1) establishing a vision data acquisition system using a vision sensor; (S2) acquiring, by the vision data acquisition system, a training data of the trace lines of the 3D braided material; ...