US Patent Issued to LEICA GEOSYSTEMS on Dec. 9 for "Laser scanner with stereo camera vision for improved selective feature scanning" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,894, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AG (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Laser scanner with stereo camera vision for improved selective feature scanning" was invented by Marcel Ruegg (Baden, Switzerland) and Matthias Wolf (Suhr, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A selective laser scanner, comprising a target component which can be rotated about two rotation axes and is configured to transmit a distance measuring beam defining a target axis. The selective laser scanner further comprises a distance measuring unit configured to carry out distance measurements by means of the distance measuring beam on cooperative ta...