ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,705, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to HEXAGON INNOVATION HUB GMBH (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Construction site inspection documentation method and system" was invented by Elmar Vincent Van Der Zwan (Walzenhausen, Switzerland), Thomas Ziegler (Zurich, Switzerland) and Muyan Xiao (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for construction inspection documentation with an inspection device moved at the construction along a trajectory, whilst capturing multiple inspection data sets. Thereby, there is automatically extracting first trajectory shape- and/or time-related attributes by evaluation of a shape a...