ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,360, issued on June 24, was assigned to HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).
"Multi-beam measuring device" was invented by Rainer Wohlgenannt (Klaus, Austria), Martin De Lange (Kesswil, Switzerland), Benjamin Seifert (Grabs, Switzerland), Simon Bestler (Langenargen, Germany) and Jurg Hinderling (Marbach, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An absolute distance measuring method and device including a transmission unit having a laser array comprising multiple measurement laser emitters arranged along a laser array axis and a receiver unit having at least one receiver array comprising multiple measurement rece...