ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,629, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to RIEGEL Laser Measurement Systems GmbH (Horn, Austria).
"Laser scanner" was invented by Andreas Ullrich (Gablitz, Austria) and Rainer Reichert (Horn, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser scanner for scanning of an environment, comprising a laser transmitter for transmitting a transmission beam, a laser receiver for receiving the transmission beam reflected by the environment as a receive beam, a beam-deflection device arranged in the beam path of the transmission and receive beams in the form of a mirror pyramid that is rotatable about a rotational axis, and an elongated housing comp...