US Patent Issued to Gagemaker on Oct. 7 for "In-process diameter measurement gage" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,970, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Gagemaker LP (Pasadena, Texas).

"In-process diameter measurement gage" was invented by Jimmy I. Frank (San Antonio), John Wolfe III (Pearland, Texas), Craig Cloud (New Braunfles, Texas), Mark Bewley (Lakehills, Texas) and Kris Dawson (Pearland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An In-Process Diameter Gage comprises a Position Detection Subsystem, preferably an optical switch and trigger, a Dimension Measurement Subsystem, preferably comprising a wheel of known diameter and a rotation encoder, and a Data Processing Subsystem, all configured and arranged to determine a dimensional property of a ...