US Patent Issued to Hilti on Oct. 20 for "Method for computing the pose of a measuring device in the reference system of a geometry model" (Liechtensteiner Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,290, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Hilti Corp. (Schaan, Liechtenstein).

"Method for computing the pose of a measuring device in the reference system of a geometry model" was invented by Thomas Gloor (Triesen, Liechtenstein).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for computing the pose of a measuring device, which is set up in a measuring environment having multiple delimitation surfaces and which includes a distance measuring unit having a measuring beam and at least one angle measuring unit, in the reference system of a geometry model, which maps at least the delimitation surfaces of the measuring environment, by a microcontrol...