US Patent Issued to DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN on Sept. 30 for "Method for tracking a retroreflector and device for carrying out such a method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,591, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GMBH (Traunreut, Germany).

"Method for tracking a retroreflector and device for carrying out such a method" was invented by Markus Meissner (Uebersee, Germany), Alexander Schwanecke (Traunreut, Germany), Nikolas Tekles (Pittenhart, Germany) and Franz Langrieger (Trostberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for tracking a retroreflector that is movable in space includes emitting a measurement light beam toward the retroreflector. A tracking control signal is generated as a function of the position of the measurement light beam reflected by the retroreflect...