ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,198, issued on May 27, was assigned to Tripleye GmbH (Karlsruhe, Germany).

"Method for capturing three-dimensional images with the aid of a stereo camera having two cameras, as well as method for producing a redundant image of a measurement object, and apparatus for carrying out the methods" was invented by Jens Schick (Herrenberg, Germany) and Michael Scharrer (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For three-dimensional image capture with the aid of a stereo camera having two cameras, an image of a three-dimensional scene is first captured simultaneously with the two cameras. Characteristic signatures of scene objects wi...