US Patent Issued to HEXAGON INNOVATION HUB on June 16 for "Touch trigger probe with capacitive sensor" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,096, issued on June 16, was assigned to HEXAGON INNOVATION HUB GMBH (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Touch trigger probe with capacitive sensor" was invented by Marcel Rohner (Grub AR, Switzerland), Vincent Michel (Balgach, Switzerland) and Nikolay Khanenya (St. Gallen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch trigger probe with a capacitive sensor for measuring three degrees of freedom with a sensor base and a sensor head which is spaced to the sensor base by a flexible suspension and can be capacitively coupled to the sensor base, whereby the suspension enables a relative movement in three degrees of freedom of the sensor head ...