ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,947, issued on May 12, was assigned to Groove UnLtd. LLC (Taneytown, Md.).

"Point determination and projection device" was invented by Michael J. Miller (Bethesda, Md.) and Leonard Jay Wantz (Taneytown, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a point determination and projection device configured to automatically detect the location of a point of interest, such as a midpoint or other intermediate point on a surface, and to project light or another image onto such point of interest to indicate its location to a user. In accordance with certain aspects of an embodiment of the invention, the device includes remote distance...