ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,957, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CSPECT B.V. (Ostend, Belgium).
"Mechanism for positioning a measuring instrument on a wall or surface" was invented by Hendrik Vanneste (Bruges, Belgium) and Jurgen Moerman (Jabbeke, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for positioning at least two tools on a surface, which includes: a first body that is provided with a support section (3); driving means for moving the tools; and, control means for controlling the driving means and the tools, which are such that the tools can be brought with the driving means alternately with a tangent plane on their relevant machining surface or ...