ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,379, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).
"Scanning device with point-to-point focusing" was invented by Jurg Hinderling (Marbach, Switzerland), Andreas Walser (St. Gallen, Switzerland), Tim Mayer (Widnau, Switzerland), Hannes Beyer (Romanshorn, Switzerland) and Oliver Rohrer (Lindau, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and opto-electronic measuring device for measuring of an object's surface with a measuring rate of at least one thousand object points per second. Using a high-speed autofocus optical module comprising at least one variable focal length lens or reconfigura...