US Patent Issued to CKD on March 25 for "Three-dimensional measurement device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,230, issued on March 25, was assigned to CKD Corp. (Aichi, Japan).

"Three-dimensional measurement device" was invented by Hiroyuki Ishigaki (Aichi, Japan), Tomoru Okada (Aichi, Japan) and Ikuo Futamura (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional measurement device includes: a light emitter; an optical system that splits an incident light, irradiates a measurement object with an object light and irradiates a reference plane with a reference light, and recombines the object and reference lights and emits a combined light; an imaging device that takes an image of a light emitted from the optical system; a storage d...