ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,257, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Fiducial alignment device" was invented by Willem Hendrik Boshoff (Bristol, Great Britain) and Christopher James Breitfeller (Everett, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a housing, a first coupler coupled to the housing, and a second coupler coupled to the housing. The first coupler has a first channel and the second coupler has a second channel. The device further includes a first laser configured to output a first laser beam in a first direction, a second laser disposed at least partially within the first channel of the first coupler ...