US Patent Issued to HEXAGON GEOSYSTEMS SERVICES on July 14 for "Method and system for autonomous exploration and scanning" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,491, issued on July 14, was assigned to HEXAGON GEOSYSTEMS SERVICES AG (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Method and system for autonomous exploration and scanning" was invented by Andreas Jager (Zurich, Switzerland), Lukas Schmid (Zurich, Switzerland), Marko Panjek (Zurich, Switzerland), Cedric De Crousaz (Zurich, Switzerland) and Giacomo Manzoni (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for autonomously exploring, by a mobile robot, one or more objects of interest, the mobile robot comprising a computing unit and a laser scanner module for scanning surfaces of the one or more objects of interest, the...