US Patent Issued to FARO Technologies on Jan. 27 for "Line scanner having target-tracking and geometry-tracking modes" (Italian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,700, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to FARO Technologies Inc. (Lake Mary, Fla.).

"Line scanner having target-tracking and geometry-tracking modes" was invented by Francessco Bonarrigo (Ghedi, Italy), Paul C. Atwell (Lake Mary, Fla.), John Lucas Creachbaum (Deltona, Fla.), Nitesh Dhasmana (Lake Mary, Fla.), Fabiano Kovalski (Sanford, Fla.), Andrea Riccardi (Rezzato, Italy), William E. Schoenfeldt (Oviedo, Fla.), Marco Torsello (Brescia, Italy) and Christopher Michael Wilson (Lake Mary, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A handheld three-dimensional (3D) measuring system operates in a target mode and a geometry mode. In the target mo...