US Patent Issued to Hilti on March 31 for "Mobile construction robot" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,499, issued on March 31, was assigned to Hilti AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).

"Mobile construction robot" was invented by Havard Halvorsen (Sogndal, Norway) and Jorn Sandvik Nilsson (Sogndal, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart drilling system that includes a controller, a drilling machine with an optical marker, and a tracker station at a fixed spot of a construction site. The drilling machine includes an optical marker. The tracker station acquires the location of the drilling machine and its drill through tracking the optical marker. The drilling machine is moved into positions of multiple different work regions. The track...