ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,315, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Hilti AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).

"Position measurement method, position measurement systems and marking" was invented by Sascha Korl (Buchs, Switzerland), Peer Schmidt (Lindau, Germany), Nitish Kumar (Buchs, Switzerland), Kristian Morin (Buchs, Switzerland) and Michael Helmberger (Bludenz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for repeatedly measuring the position of a construction device on a construction site, wherein a position is measured relative to at least two, the method comprising: a. directly measuring the distances from a position measurement system arranged and/or formed on...