US Patent Issued to Trimble on July 14 for "Augmented reality device operation with robotic total station" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,584, issued on July 14, was assigned to Trimble Inc. (Westminster, Colo.).

"Augmented reality device operation with robotic total station" was invented by Mark Nichols (Christchurch, New Zealand), Thomas Peterson (Christchurch, New Zealand) and Adam Bursill (Christchurch, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for operating an augmented reality (AR) device using a robotic total station (RTS) are described. An RTS reference frame is correlated with an AR reference frame. A set of RTS measurements are received from the RTS including a distance and an angle from the RTS to a reflector of the AR device. An RTS point within...