ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,810, issued on July 14, was assigned to Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, China).

"Method for calibrating spatial pose and position of chromatic confocal probe with combined planar and spherical constraints" was invented by Wenlong Lu (Wuhan, China) and Junhao Xie (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calibrating a spatial pose and position of a chromatic confocal probe with combined planar and spherical constraints is provided. The method includes: transforming point information in a contact probe coordinate system into coordinate information in a machine coordinate system, and transforming po...