US Patent Issued to FARO Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Speckle reduction methods in line scanners" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,073, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to FARO Technologies Inc. (Lake Mary, Fla.).

"Speckle reduction methods in line scanners" was invented by Nitesh Dhasmana (Lake Mary, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a first light source that emits a beam of light; an electrical modulator that imparts a time-varying modulation on the beam of light; a beam-shaping system that shapes the beam of light and projects the shaped beam of light onto an object; an image sensor that captures the beam of light reflected from the object; and processors that determine three-dimensional (3D) coordinates of points on the object."

The patent ...