US Patent Issued to FARO TECHNOLOGIES on May 13 for "Tracking with reference to a world coordinate system" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,926, issued on May 13, was assigned to FARO TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Lake Mary, Fla.).

"Tracking with reference to a world coordinate system" was invented by Jafar Amiri Parian (Schlieren, Switzerland) and Robert E. Bridges (Kennett Square, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein provide a method that includes capturing data about an environment. The method further includes generating a database of two-dimensional (2D) features and associated three-dimensional (3D) coordinates based at least in part on the data about the environment. The method further includes determining a position (x, y, z) and an orientation (pitch...