ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,098, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Trimble Inc. (Westminster, Colo.).
"Optical map data aggregation and feedback in a construction environment" was invented by Jordan Lawver (Denver), Murari Krishnan (Superior, Colo.), David Burczyk (Arvada, Colo.), Bryan Williams (Westminster, Colo.), Peter Ziegler (San Francisco) and Kent Kahle (Fallbrook, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A central map can be used in a construction environment to help position devices and receive updates from devices to update the central map. Devices in the construction environment, such augmented-reality devices, laser scanners, total stations, satellite ...