US Patent Issued to HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER on Nov. 18 for "Image-based method of defining a scanning area" (Austrian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,567, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Image-based method of defining a scanning area" was invented by Bernhard Metzler (Dornbirn, Austria) and Matthias Saure (Aarau Rohr, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image-based method of defining a scanning area with a measuring radiation-based measuring device such as a laser scanner, the method comprising roughly aligning a targeting axis of the measuring device towards an area of interest to be scanned, the area of interest having a coherent visual property, capturing with known orientation to the targeting axis an image co...