US Patent Issued to Hilti on Feb. 18 for "Method for setting more precisely a position and/or orientation of a device head" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,867, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Hilti AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).

"Method for setting more precisely a position and/or orientation of a device head" was invented by Sascha Korl (Buchs, Switzerland), Abel Gawel (Greifensee, Switzerland), Hermann Blum (Zurich), Timothy Sandy (Zurich), Marco Hutter (Flawil, Switzerland) and Roland Siegwart (Schwyz, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for setting more precisely a position and/or an orientation of a device head in a measuring environment by a distance measuring device which has a number of M, Mless than=1, distance measuring sensors and which is connected to the de...