ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,547, issued on June 23, was assigned to HEXAGON INNOVATION HUB GMBH (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).
"Scanning measuring device with fiber network" was invented by Reto Stutz (Au, Switzerland), Jurg Hinderling (Marbach, Switzerland) and Florian Engeler (Goldach, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser scanner or laser profiler for scanning of an object surface by measuring of distances to surface points comprising a light pulse source, a transmission unit, a receiving unit for receiving measurement light reflected from the object surfaces and for determining the respective distance to a surface point based on the received measure...