ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,800, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Hexagon Technology Center GmbH (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Precision geometry service for thin client applications" was invented by Anupreet Singh (Madison, Ala.), Kenneth Doyle Houser (Hartselle, Ala.) and Cavender George Holt (Florence, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to efficiently get precision geometry for a graphic object on a thin client application such as running on a browser or hand-held device. Specifically, a Precision Geometry Client running on a client device sends requests to a corresponding Precision Geometry Service running on a server system to obtain pr...