ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,855, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to HEXAGON INNOVATION HUB GMBH (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).
"Virtual 3D-scanning environment" was invented by Merlin Bastien Fischer (Bulach, Switzerland), Susanna Nevalainen (Zurich, Switzerland), Bruno Rocha Pereira (Sterrebeek, Belgium) and Emanuele Di Ciommo (Zurich, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scanning method for 3D-laser scanning using a virtual reality scene for a remote operator wherein based on a virtual position of the user a scan region is automatically defined. The scan region is then scanned by a scanner, for example a robotic UGV-scanner, deployed in the environment. ...