ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,355, issued on July 29, was assigned to TOPCON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Laser scanning control device, laser scanning apparatus, laser scanning control method, and program" was invented by Hiroaki Sugimoto (Tokyo) and Hideki Morita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for solving problems in laser scanning related to intense light that is reflected back from a reflector target is provided. A laser scanning control device for controlling laser scanning performed by a laser scanning apparatus includes a controller, a distance acquisition unit, and a light controller. The controller executes first laser scanning and second laser sca...