ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,754, issued on April 15, was assigned to LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AG (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).
"Laser distance meter" was invented by Thomas Bosch (Lustenau, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser distance meter consisting of an optical emitting path having an optical emitter and emitting optics and a receiving path having receiving optics and an optical detector. In this case, an optics mount completely optically isolates the emitting path and receiving path from one another and fixes the components thereof. The emitting optics and receiving optics are designed as plastic components transmissive to the measuring beams, and the optics...