US Patent Issued to Trimble on Sept. 1 for "Stationary and mobile scanning operations" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,125, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Trimble Inc. (Westminster, Colo.).

"Stationary and mobile scanning operations" was invented by Volker Koehler (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scanning surveying system includes a base, an alidade mounted on the base an rotatable relative to the base about a first axis, a first motor that can rotate the alidade relative to the base, a rotating optical element coupled to the alidade and rotatable relative to the alidade about a second axis, a second motor that can rotate the rotating optical element relative to the base, an optical distance measuring unit, a sensor that can detect a moti...