US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Aug. 5 for "Optical distance measurement device and machining device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,494, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical distance measurement device and machining device" was invented by Takanori Yamauchi (Tokyo), Hiroki Goto (Tokyo), Kiyoshi Onohara (Tokyo) and Naoki Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first optical path length from an emission surface of a first optical system to a reflection surface of a target object is calculated on the basis of first reflected light received by the first optical system and reference light generated by a splitter. A second optical path length from an emission surface of the second optical system to a reflection surface of ...