ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,192, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ZOLLER & FROHLICH GMBH (Germany).
"Laser scanner" was invented by Christoph Frohlich (Wangen, Germany) and Markus Mettenleiter (Isny, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 2D laser scanner measures 360deg profiles. The scanner has a housing on which a rotor head is retained and in which a reference module is protected against environmental influences. A housing bottom part has a hollow spindle which supports the rotating rotor head with a deflection unit. The beam path is formed in the interior of the spindle. A laser head is arranged oriented to the axis of rotation, via which the measureme...