ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,364, issued on June 24, was assigned to LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AG (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Reality capture device with different climate zones for cooling" was invented by Roland Graf (Untereggen, Switzerland) and Roman Steffen (Rebstein, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a reality capture device for generating a digital three-dimensional representation of an environment, particularly for surveying or monitoring an infrastructure. The reality capture device comprises a laser scanner and a housing enclosing an internal space, which has a first and a second climate zone. The reality capture device has a co...