US Patent Issued to TOPCON on Aug. 5 for "Surveying device and surveying method using the surveying device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,496, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TOPCON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Surveying device and surveying method using the surveying device" was invented by Takeshi Kikuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surveying device includes a wearable device including a posture sensor for detecting three-axis directions of a line-of-sight direction x, a left-right direction y, and an up-down direction z-axis of the worker, a distance-measuring unit for measuring a linear distance L from a distance measuring start point to a measurement point in the x-axis, and a position sensor having a fixed disposition relationship with the distance-measuring unit...