US Patent Issued to FARO Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Aligning scans of an environment using a reference object" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,288, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to FARO Technologies Inc. (Lake Mary, Fla.).

"Aligning scans of an environment using a reference object" was invented by Denis Wohlfeld (Ludwigsburg, Germany) and Tobias Boehret (Aidlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes receiving a first plurality of coordinate measurement points capturing a portion of an environment and a reference object within the environment, the first plurality of coordinate measurement points defining at least a portion of a first point cloud. The method further includes receiving a second plurality of coordinate measurement points from a...