US Patent Issued to LEICA GEOSYSTEMS on Sept. 30 for "Roller bearing for supporting a probing unit of a reality capture device with compensation for increase in preload" (Austrian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,093, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AG (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Roller bearing for supporting a probing unit of a reality capture device with compensation for increase in preload" was invented by Roman Steffen (Rebstein, Switzerland) and Matthias Wozasek (Hochst, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reality capture device, particularly a reality capture device having a lightweight construction, being configured for generating a digital representation of an environment. The reality capture device comprises a probing unit with a pivoting component configured to be pivoted relative to a base part of the real...