ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,394, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Carl Zeiss AG (Oberkochen, Germany).
"Apparatus and method for measuring, inspecting or machining objects" was invented by Matthias Karl (Konigsbronn, Germany), Trinh Nguyen Cong (Schwabisch Gmund, Germany) and Marc Forstenhausler (Ulm, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for measuring, inspecting and/or processing objects is provided. The apparatus has a mobile platform for moving the apparatus through a region in space and a kinematic system attached to the mobile platform. An instrument head is fitted to the kinematic system. The apparatus furthermore comprises a controller c...