US Patent Issued to LEICA GEOSYSTEMS on Nov. 3 for "Automatic, reference-free precise stationing of a geodetic survey instrument based on environment information" (Swiss, Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,128, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AG (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Automatic, reference-free precise stationing of a geodetic survey instrument based on environment information" was invented by Zoltan Torok (Berneck, Switzerland), Bernhard Metzler (Dornbirn, Austria), Elmar Van Der Zwan (Walzenhausen, Switzerland) and Holger Strittmatter (Constance, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic stationing of a geodetic survey instrument. The instrument comprises a targeting unit to provide targeting data, an imaging sensor, wherein the axis is referenceable to a targeting direction, and a computing unit. The a...