US Patent Issued to LEICA GEOSYSTEMS on April 8 for "Time-of-flight based 3D surveillance system with flexible surveillance zone definition functionality" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,143, issued on April 8, was assigned to LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AG (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Time-of-flight based 3D surveillance system with flexible surveillance zone definition functionality" was invented by Markus Ribi (Heerbrugg, Switzerland), Sandra Tobler (Berneck, Switzerland), Adam Bajric (Kirchberg, Switzerland) and Carl-Thomas Schneider (Zug, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surveillance system for detecting and/or characterizing movement of a monitored infrastructure. An improved compromise between tight zone surveillance and number of false alarms is provided by an improved control of a 3D surveillance device. An i...