ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,891, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Industrial Metrology Solutions LLC (Mebane, N.C.).
"Non-contact optical measurement devices and exchangeable optical probes" was invented by Shawn A. Boling (Wilsonville, Ore.), Bhaskar Ramakrishnan (Wilsonville, Ore.), Derek Graham Aqui (Wilsonville, Ore.) and Chris Barns (Wilsonville, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a non-contact optical measurement device for detecting or measuring different geometric workpiece features based on configurable light-propagation paths of light emitted from a light source and reflected by a workpiece surface for incidence upon a spectral sensor. T...