US Patent Issued to HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER on Feb. 17 for "Open-loop distance adjustment for a coordinate measuring machine" (German, British, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,703, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Open-loop distance adjustment for a coordinate measuring machine" was invented by Patrick Ilg (Wangen, Germany), Pete Champ (Rickmansworth, Great Britain), Patryk Wroclawski (Wangen, Germany), Sascha Schiwy (Sennwald, Switzerland) and Kai Imhauser (Lindau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a distance between a non-contact measurement probe head of a CMM and a work piece during a measurement. The method comprises providing steering commands to steer the work piece and/or the probe head through a measuring pat...