ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,779, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sensopart Industriesensorik GmbH (Wieden, Germany).

"Method for determining a three-dimensional pose of an object" was invented by Jens Pannekamp (Umkirch, Germany) and Dominik Kult (Stegen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A target marker (1) for determining a three-dimensional pose of an object (4) has a predetermined number of encoding modules (2). The encoding modules (2) of the target marker (1) are present in a defined module pattern (10) that encodes a character string that includes specific information that defines object parameters of the object (4), selected from the group compr...