US Patent Issued to FARO Technologies on Jan. 27 for "Handheld scanner for measuring three-dimensional coordinates" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,927, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to FARO Technologies Inc. (Lake Mary, Fla.).

"Handheld scanner for measuring three-dimensional coordinates" was invented by Paul C. Atwell (Lake Mary, Fla.), Matthew Mogensen (Lake Mary, Fla.), Nitesh Dhasmana (Lake Mary, Fla.) and Christopher M. Riehl (Lake Mary, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D measuring system includes a first projector that projects a first line onto an object at a first wavelength, a second projector that projects a second line onto the object at a second wavelength, a first illuminator that emits a third light onto some markers, a second illuminator that emits a four...