ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,072, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Renishaw PLC (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain).
"Coordinate positioning machine" was invented by Julius Duprez (Pommeuse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of calibrating a coordinate positioning machine is described. The machine is controlled into a pivot pose in which a target point associated with a moveable part of the machine and a pivot point associated with a fixed part of the machine are separated from one another by a known separation. An error value for that pose is determined based on the known separation and a separation expected for that pose from the existing model p...