ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,997, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"System and method for detecting calibration of a 3D sensor" was invented by Sanjeewa Thimirachandra (Kotugoda, Sri Lanka).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example computing device includes: a three-dimensional (3D) sensor configured to capture point cloud data from a field of view; an auxiliary sensor configured to capture a reference depth measurement corresponding to a surface within the field of view; a processor interconnected with the 3D sensor and the auxiliary sensor, the processor configured to: control the 3D sensor and the auxiliary sens...