US Patent Issued to FARO Technologies on June 3 for "Tracking data acquired by coordinate measurement devices through a workflow" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,500, issued on June 3, was assigned to FARO Technologies Inc. (Lake Mary, Fla.).

"Tracking data acquired by coordinate measurement devices through a workflow" was invented by Martin Ossig (Tamm, Germany), Oswin Horvath (Tamm, Germany) and Daniel Flohr (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method that includes providing a database for storing meta-data that describes steps in a workflow and an order of the steps in the workflow. The meta-data includes, for each of the steps: a reference to an input data file for the step; a description of a transaction performed at the step; and a reference to an output data file generat...