ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,963, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NOVANTA EUROPE GMBH (Wackersdorf, Germany).

"Method for scanning field correction at least of a laser scanner device, laser scanner device, scatter pattern element, scatter pattern holding device and scanning field correction system" was invented by Alexander Graf (Bodenwohr, Germany), Florian Klemmer (Lappersdorf, Germany), Thomas Buckert (Burgthann, Germany) and Martin Hartmann (Burgthann, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for scanning field correction at least of a laser scanner device (300), wherein the method comprises the following steps: -providin...