US Patent Issued to LEICA GEOSYSTEMS on Nov. 11 for "Surveying device for improved target classification" (Swiss, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,750, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AG (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Surveying device for improved target classification" was invented by Martin Mayer (Koblach, Austria), Ulrich Hornung (St.Gallen, Switzerland), Barbara Haupt (Walzenhausen, Switzerland) and Katrin Mentl (Marbach, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A geodetic surveying device, wherein the geodetic surveying device is configured for surveying retroreflective cooperative targets, the geodetic surveying device comprising a base, a telescope and a support. The geodetic surveying device further comprises a target recognition emitting unit, called ...