US Patent Issued to LEICA GEOSYSTEMS on May 19 for "Measuring device comprising a targeting unit and a scanning module" (Swiss, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,732, issued on May 19, was assigned to LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AG (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Measuring device comprising a targeting unit and a scanning module" was invented by Tim Mayer (Widnau, Switzerland), Benjamin Scholl (Hauptwil, Switzerland), Jochen Scheja (Hohenems, Austria) and Jurg Hinderling (Marbach, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measuring device comprising a targeting unit and a scanning module. The scanning module bas a field of view with a central line in the field of view. The measuring device has a pivoting axis around which an upper part of the measuring device can be pivoted or rotated. The central line dev...