US Patent Issued to SAFRAN VECTRONIX on June 9 for "Hand-held observation device and method for obtaining a 3D point cloud" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,515, issued on June 9, was assigned to SAFRAN VECTRONIX AG (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Hand-held observation device and method for obtaining a 3D point cloud" was invented by Franck Scolari (Heerbrugg, Switzerland), Holger Kirschner (Heerbrugg, Switzerland), Jakub Olexa (Heerbrugg, Switzerland) and Stefan Gunther (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand-held observation device includes: a laser rangefinder (LRF) unit configured to measure a distance between the observation device and a target point on a remote target, a camera configured to capture images of the target, a pose detection unit configured to detect a ...