US Patent Issued to FARO Technologies on April 8 for "System and method of scanning an environment and generating two dimensional images of the environment" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,999, issued on April 8, was assigned to FARO Technologies Inc. (Lake Mary, Fla.).

"System and method of scanning an environment and generating two dimensional images of the environment" was invented by Aleksej Frank (Kornwestheim, Germany), Matthias Wolke (Korntal-Munchingen, Germany) and Oliver Zweigle (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for scanning an environment and generating an annotated 2D map is provided. The method includes acquiring, via a 2D scanner, a plurality of 2D coordinates on object surfaces in the environment, the 2D scanner having a light source and an image sensor, the image sen...