US Patent Issued to FARO Technologies on May 13 for "Compensation of three-dimensional measuring instrument having an autofocus camera" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,932, issued on May 13, was assigned to FARO Technologies Inc. (Lake Mary, Fla.).

"Compensation of three-dimensional measuring instrument having an autofocus camera" was invented by Martin Ossig (Tamm, Germany) and Johannes Buback (Korntal-Munchingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D measuring instrument and method of operation is provided that includes a registration camera and a an autofocus camera. The method includes capturing with the registration camera a first registration image of a first plurality of points and a first image with the first camera with the instrument in a first pose. A plurality of three-dimensional...