ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,352, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to FARO Technologies Inc. (Lake Mary, Fla.).
"Three-dimensional scanning and image reconstruction thereof" was invented by Andreas Woloschyn (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Three-dimensional coordinate scanners and methods of scanning environments are described. The scanners include a housing having a top, a bottom, a first side, a second side, a first end face, and a second end face. A 3D point cloud system is arranged within the housing including a rotating mirror and configured to acquire 3D point cloud data of a scanned environment. A first color camera is arranged within th...