ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,691, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).
"Rotary table compensation" was invented by Markus Sprecher (Grabserberg, Switzerland), Marcel Rohner (Heiden, Switzerland) and Michael Zapp (Saarlouis, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) system comprising a CMM, a rotary table, and a rotation arrangement, wherein the CMM system is configured to be calibrated by determining the 6 dof pose of a jig, and to a method for calibrating. The jig may be mounted such that a current pose of the jig is associated with a current pose of the rotary table with r...