ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,496, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to FARO Technologies Inc. (Lake Mary, Fla.).
"Sensor synchronization" was invented by Neil Slatcher (Ruddington, Great Britain) and Cheryl Smith (Ruddington, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a simultaneous localisation and mapping, SLAM, device a data processing unit, computer program and associated method for receiving first-sensor-data, first-motion-data and first-timing-information associated with the first-sensor-data and the first-motion-data; receiving second-sensor-data, second-motion-data and second-timing-information associated with the second-sensor-...