US Patent Issued to FARO Technologies on May 12 for "Alignment and registration system and method for coordinate scanners" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,270, issued on May 12, was assigned to FARO Technologies Inc. (Lake Mary, Fla.).

"Alignment and registration system and method for coordinate scanners" was invented by Johannes Buback (Sersheim, Germany), Martin Ossig (Tamm, Germany) and Igor Sapina (Kornwestheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes moving a base unit through an environment, the base unit comprising the first scanner and the second scanner. The method further includes capturing, by the first scanner, a first scan of the environment, the first scan comprising at least one first scanline. The method further includes capturing, by the second...