ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,736, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOPCON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Surveying instrument" was invented by Masaho Kikuchi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a surveying instrument including an instrument height measuring unit configured to make a distance measurement by emitting distance-measuring light to a distance-measuring object below a vertical axis of a surveying instrument main body, and an arithmetic unit configured to calculate a distance to the distance-measuring object by analyzing light being the distance-measuring light that has returned by being reflected by the distance-measuring object, and calculate an instrument ...