US Patent Issued to HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER on April 15 for "Surveying device with image evaluator for determining a spatial pose of the target axis" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,727, issued on April 15, was assigned to HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Surveying device with image evaluator for determining a spatial pose of the target axis" was invented by Bernhard Metzler (Dornbirn, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surveying device for a coordinative position determination of a spatial point, wherein the surveying device comprises a camera which is fixedly mounted to a transmission unit in a way that its field-of-view moves with a targeting component. The surveying device further comprises an image evaluator, configured for automatically identifying corresponding image features...