US Patent Issued to LEICA GEOSYSTEMS on April 29 for "Laser scanner" (Swiss, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,408, issued on April 29, was assigned to LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AG (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Laser scanner" was invented by Simon Mark (Thal, Switzerland), Klaus Bereuter (Alberschwende, Austria), Benjamin Muller (St. Gallen, Switzerland), Roman Steffen (Rebstein, Switzerland), Burkhard Bockem (Jonen, Switzerland), Jurgen Dold (Sempach, Switzerland), Jochen Scheja (Hohenems, Austria), Lukas Heinzle (Wadenswil, Switzerland) and Charles Leopold Elisabeth Dumoulin (Balgach, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser scanner and a system with a laser scanner for measuring an environment. The laser scanner includes an optical distance m...