ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,442, issued on April 21, was assigned to HEXAGON INNOVATION HUB GMBH (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).
"Active thermal management for coordinate measuring machines" was invented by Nikolay Khanenya (St. Gallen, Switzerland) and Danick Bruhlmann (Staad, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coordinate measuring machine (CMM) for determining at least one spatial coordinate of a measurement point on an object, the CMM comprising a structure comprising a base and a plurality of frame elements, wherein a probe head is attached to one of the frame elements and movable relative to the base, wherein the CMM comprises a temperature control sy...