ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,554, issued on July 8, was assigned to Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH (Oberkochen, Germany).
"Operation of a coordinate measuring machine with a person-guided sensor" was invented by Benjamin Weber (Oberkochen, Germany) and Dominik Seitz (Oberkochen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating an optical sensor, which has a movement controller that can be actuated by a user to control a movement of the sensor relative to a measurement object, includes identifying that the sensor is in a favorable state of movement relative to the measurement object, and generating and outputting a signal when the sensor is ...