US Patent Issued to Hilti on April 7 for "Apparatus for optically measuring the distance to a scattering target object or a reflecting target object" (Austrian, Liechtensteiner Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,194, issued on April 7, was assigned to Hilti AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).

"Apparatus for optically measuring the distance to a scattering target object or a reflecting target object" was invented by Torsten Gogolla (Schaan, Liechtenstein) and Andreas Winter (Feldkirch, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for optically measuring a distance to a scattering target object or a reflecting target object includes a laser beam source which is embodied as a first electro-optical component, a detector which is embodied as a second electro-optical component and which receives a reception beam that has been scattered at the scatt...