ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,470, issued on July 22, was assigned to Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corp. (Tokyo).

"Calibration apparatus, calibration method, and non-transitory computer readable medium having recorded thereon calibration program" was invented by Shota Konno (Tokyo) and Takato Katayama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a calibration apparatus including: an acquisition unit for acquiring a detection position of a mobile body for each actual position of the mobile body; a calculation unit for calculating, for a detection position of each actual position of the mobile body, an error between a slit position signal for detecting a slit posi...