US Patent Issued to FARO Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Three-dimensional (3D) scanner with 3D aperture and tilted optical bandpass filter" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,242, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to FARO Technologies Inc. (Lake Mary, Fla.).

"Three-dimensional (3D) scanner with 3D aperture and tilted optical bandpass filter" was invented by Jens Trollmann (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Stefan Muller (Ditzingen, Germany), Martin Ossig (Tamm, Germany) and Elisabeth Bruhl (Tamm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional (3D) scanner includes a light source, an optical detector, a reference reflector, and a 3D aperture structure having side walls and an aperture, the aperture sized to pass a first portion of the light reflected by the reference reflector, the side walls sized to bloc...