US Patent Issued to Hexagon Metrology on June 3 for "Jogbox with 3D scanner" (Rhode Island Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,627, issued on June 3, was assigned to Hexagon Metrology Inc. (North Kingstown, R.I.).

"Jogbox with 3D scanner" was invented by Milan Kocic (Pawtucket, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method measures an object using a CMM having a CMM accuracy. To that end, the method provides a jogbox with a 3D scanner having a scanner accuracy, positions the object on the CMM, and scans, using the 3D scanner, the object to produce scan data of the object. The method also measures a first portion of the object using the scan data, and a second portion of the object using the CMM. The CMM accuracy is more accurate than the scanner accuracy."

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