US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Oct. 21 for "Optical distance measurement device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,537, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical distance measurer includes: a beam splitter splitting a laser beam and outputting as measurement light and reference light; a measurement light beam splitter splitting the measurement light and outputting as first measurement light and second measurement light; a reference light beam splitter splitting the reference light and outputting as first ...