US Patent Issued to LEICA GEOSYSTEMS on March 18 for "Method and system for providing individual information about a coordinate measuring device" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,348, issued on March 18, was assigned to LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AG (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Method and system for providing individual information about a coordinate measuring device" was invented by Markus Steiner (Granichen, Switzerland) and Philip Kim (Galloway, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer system and computer-implemented method comprising: providing a digital-twin database comprising individual digital twins for a multitude of coordinate measuring devices; assigning an individual code to each of the multitude of coordinate measuring devices; providing on a first coordinate measuring device the assigned code; and pair...