US Patent Issued to HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER on Oct. 28 for "Target object with improved angular incidence range for retroreflection" (Austrian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,406, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Target object with improved angular incidence range for retroreflection" was invented by Jurg Hinderling (Marbach, Switzerland) and Thomas Piok (Koblach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A target object providing a large angular incidence range for retroreflection and a reduced amount of interfering reflections. The target object is configured to provide a 360deg all-around retroreflection about a vertical axis and plus-minus45deg angular incidence range from the horizontal. According to one aspect, the target object comprises eigh...