ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,241, issued on May 12, was assigned to Trimble Inc. (Westminster, Colo.).
"Method and system for aligning surveying instruments" was invented by Michael Vogel (Schleifreisen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for aligning two surveying instruments in a common space in a process that uses an autocollimation of a collimated light beam transmitted by a first surveying instrument and reflected by a second surveying instrument. In the alignment process, the first surveying instrument may emit a collimated light beam towards the second the surveying instrument and receive a reflection of the collimated light beam from the seco...