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Search Patents by Helen Qiao

Patents listed here reflect only technologies patented from FY 2018-present. To view all of NIST's patented technologies, visit the NIST pages on the Federal Laboratory Consortium website.

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Sketch of six-dimensional smart target

Six-Dimensional Smart Target

NIST Inventors
Craig I. Schlenoff and Helen Qiao
A six-dimensional smart target determines pose of an object and includes: a gimbal with an azimuthal base and an elevation arm; an elevation member on the elevation arm that has light pipes; and an azimuthal member with light pipes such that the elevation member rotates at a rotary center about an
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