US Patent Issued to TOPCON on Oct. 27 for "Surveying instrument" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,886, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TOPCON Corp. (Tokyo-to, Japan).

"Surveying instrument" was invented by Taichi Yuasa (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surveying instrument include a distance measuring light projecting module having a light emitting module configured to project a distance measuring light to an object and a one-dimensional diffusion optical member configured to diffuse the distance measuring light in a one-dimensional direction, a distance measuring light receiving module having a photodetector configured to receive a reflected distance measuring light from the object, and an arithmetic control m...