US Patent Issued to Trimble on May 6 for "Method for operating a geodetic instrument, and related geodetic instrument" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,282, issued on May 6, was assigned to Trimble Inc. (Westminster, Colo.).

"Method for operating a geodetic instrument, and related geodetic instrument" was invented by Set Svanholm (Sollentuna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present inventive concept relates to a method for operating a geodetic instrument comprising an optical source for assisting a user in aiming at a target in a scene and an imaging device, wherein the imaging device and the optical source share a common optical channel within the geodetic instrument, said method comprising: causing emission, by the optical source, of optical pulses towards the target; ca...