ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,971, issued on May 20, was assigned to ONE ORTHO (Saint-Genis-Laval, France) and UNIVERSITE SAVOIE MONT BLANC (Chambery, France).
"Stylus for three-dimensional scanning system" was invented by Pierre Vacher (Chambery, France), Christian Elmo Kulanesan (Chambery, France), Ludovic Charleux (Chambery, France), Emile Roux (Chambery, France) and Christophe Alepee (Saint-Genis-Laval, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stylus for a manual probing three-dimensional scanning system and viewing system, the stylus including a probe, and a locator comprising a plurality of markers, each marker of the plurality of markers having a normal ori...