Trimble was granted a patent for queued surveying data collection.

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    "patent_abstract": "Methods, controllers and computer program products for efficient utilization of a surveying instrument are provided. The surveying instrument may perform different types of data collection tasks, at least one of which includes measuring a direction and/or a distance to a target. The surveying instrument is controlled to perform one or more data collection tasks in accordance with a queue of one or more data collection tasks. The queue includes a data collection task of at least one of the different types of data collection tasks. During an ongoing data collection task or during an ongoing sequence of data collection tasks, an instruction is received. The instruction indicates an additional data collection task to be performed by the surveying instrument in addition to the one or more tasks already in the queue. The surveying instrument is controlled to perform data collection tasks in an order determined based on the queue and the received instruction.",
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