Leica Geosystems employees awarded with European Inventor Award 2010
28 April 2010
Engineers Albert Markendorf and Raimund Loser from Leica Geosystems in Unterentfelden/Switzerland are awarded with Europe’s highest distinction for inventors. The European Patent Office honours the portable metrology specialists for outstanding technical innovations in the “Industry” category.
The European Patent Office announced today that Albert Markendorf and Raimund Loser, metrology specialists at Leica Geosystems, receive this year’s European Inventor Award in the “Industry” category. They are awarded for portable measuring devices which considerably facilitate the inspection of industrial components. This results in an overall sustainable improvement of the end products such as cars or planes.
It was in the middle of the 1990s when Leica Geosystems first identified a great need for mobile devices in industrial metrology to make 3D measurements flexible, accurate and easy to obtain over large distances as required in aircraft manufacturing. Albert Markendorf and Raimund Loser pushed the development of portable CMMs. Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon Metrology, brought them to market successfully.
“We are very proud of this award and of the Leica Geosystems team that made this technical progress possible”, said Raimund Loser. Albert Markendorf added: “It is an honour that the jury has chosen us among plenty of fascinating inventions. We are looking forward to advancing laser tracker technology even further in the future.”
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Download | Albert Markendorf and Raimund Loser with Leica Absolute Tracker - Leica T-Probe and Leica T-Scan |
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Download | Alison Brimelow, President of the European Patent Office, Raimund Loser and Albert Markendorf at the award ceremony in Madrid. |
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