ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,169, issued on March 18, was assigned to NEOCIS INC. (Miami).

"Method of registering an imaging scan with a coordinate system and associated systems" was invented by Alon Mozes (Miami Beach, Fla.) and Alexandra Bellettre (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of relating an object to a coordinate system, the object being supported by a support element, and the object and the support element being housed within a housing, includes engaging a registration element with the object or the support element, conducting an optical surface scan of the object and the registration element, using an optical scanner, to form a th...