ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,342, issued on July 29, was assigned to Kan Mechanical Industry Inc. (Matsuyama, Japan).
"Length measuring apparatus" was invented by Eiji Kan (Matsuyama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A length measuring apparatus for use in combination with a cutting device having a cutting blade to measure length of a workpiece cut by the cutting blade comprises a slide rail which is secured relative to the cutting device when length is measured; and a sliding unit that is slidably mounted to the slide rail, the sliding unit having a sliding body, a length measuring unit that measures distance along which the sliding body slides relative to ...