ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 31 -- 3D Systems, Rock Hill, South Carolina, has been assigned a patent (8,849,015) developed by four co-inventors for a system and apparatus "for haptically enabled three-dimensional scanning." The co-inventors are Larry Bodony, Lexington, Massachusetts, Dan Cookson, Rowley, Massachusetts, David Tzu-Wei Chen, Wrentham, Massachusetts, and Curt Rawley, Windham, New Hampshire.

The patent application was filed on Oct. 12, 2011 (13/271,759). The full text of the . . .