US Patent Issued to OLIVER CRISPIN ROBOTICS, General Electric on Oct. 21 for "Systems and methods for aligning and localizing a tool" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,625, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to OLIVER CRISPIN ROBOTICS Ltd. (Altrincham, Great Britain) and General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for aligning and localizing a tool" was invented by Todd William Danko (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Trevor Owen Hawke (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A maintenance tool and alignment system are provided having a first optical device and a second optical device. The tool includes the at least two optical devices such that they do not occupy the same space or interfere with the tool's function. In some embodiments, the first and second optical devices define ...