ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,077, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Decentralized digitalization of physical objects" was invented by Thomas Klingbeil (Potsdam, Germany), Sebastian Kliem (Potsdam, Germany) and Wanja Pasternak (Falkensee, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments implement decentralized digitalization of physical objects. A digitalization engine in the cloud, receives two dimensional (2D) image data of a physical object (e.g., pizza slice) located at a first remote location (e.g., restaurant). A local scanning rig in conjunction with an image capture device (e.g., mobile phone), creates an image file comprisi...