ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,596, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Trimble Inc. (Westminster, Colo.).
"Alignment bumper for surveying prism" was invented by Scott Lyttle (Westminster, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surveying prism can include a housing, optical features, and a bumper. The optical features can be located on a radial surface of the housing azimuthally offset from one another by equal arcs. The bumper can cover the optical features. The bumper can include flat edges and position indicators. The flat edges can correspond to the optical features. Each flat edge can have a different first center point of first center points that is approxima...