ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,901, issued on July 15, was assigned to Hexagon Metrology GmbH (Wetzlar, Germany).
"Coordinate measuring apparatus" was invented by Armin Konrad (Huttenberg, Germany), Claude Rouge (Baulmes, Switzerland) and Leonard Wunderlin (Tolochenaz, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a coordinate measuring machine with a ram and a probe head or a sensor or an articulating head/unit or with an articulating head/unit with a probe head or sensor positioned on the articulating head/unitand/or with an interfacein which the probe head or the sensor or an adapter for the articulating head/unit and/or the interface is/a...