US Patent Issued to LEICA GEOSYSTEMS, HEXAGON GEOSYSTEMS SERVICES, LUCIAD on May 13 for "Digital reality platform providing data fusion for generating a three-dimensional model of the environment" (Swiss, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,816, issued on May 13, was assigned to LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AG (Heerbrugg, Switzerland), HEXAGON GEOSYSTEMS SERVICES AG (Heerbrugg, Switzerland) and LUCIAD NV (Leuven, Belgium).

"Digital reality platform providing data fusion for generating a three-dimensional model of the environment" was invented by Burkhard Bockem (Jonen, Switzerland), Jurgen Dold (Sempach, Switzerland), Pascal Strupler (Ennetbaden, Switzerland), Joris Schouteden (Kessel-Lo, Belgium) and Daniel Balog (Merchtem, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to three-dimensional reality capturing of an environment, wherein data of various kinds of...