US Patent Issued to FARO Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Generating environmental map by aligning captured scans" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,288, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to FARO Technologies Inc. (Lake Mary, Fla.).

"Generating environmental map by aligning captured scans" was invented by Oliver Zweigle (Stuttgart, Germany), Mark Brenner (Asperg, Germany), Aleksej Frank (Kornwestheim, Germany) and Ahmad Ramadneh (Kornwestheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing a simultaneous location and mapping of a scanner device in a surrounding environment includes capturing a scan-data of a portion of a map of the surrounding environment. The scan-data comprises a point cloud. Further, at runtime, a user-interface is used to make, a selection of a fe...