US Patent Issued to FARO Technologies on Jan. 27 for "Three dimensional measurement device having a camera with a fisheye lens" (German, American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,590, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to FARO Technologies Inc. (Lake Mary, Fla.).

"Three dimensional measurement device having a camera with a fisheye lens" was invented by Jafar Amiri Parian (Schlieren, Switzerland), Daniel Flohr (Stuttgart, Germany), Martin Ossig (Tamm, Germany), Andreas Woloschyn (Stuttgart, Germany) and Yazid Tohme (West Chester, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D measurement system, a laser scanner and a measurement device are provided. The system includes a 3D measurement device and a 360 degree image acquisition system coupled in a fixed relationship to the 3D measurement device. The 360 degree image acqu...