US Patent Issued to MITUTOYO on Feb. 17 for "Measuring instrument with linear encoder tracks and arc motion" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,746, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MITUTOYO Corp. (Kanagawa-Ken, Japan).

"Measuring instrument with linear encoder tracks and arc motion" was invented by Ted Staton Cook (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measuring instrument includes a movable portion configured to rotate in an arc motion about a pivot portion, and an electronic position encoder configured to measure an absolute relative position between a detector portion and a scale portion, one of which forms part of the movable portion. In the detector portion, first and second scale element portions of first and second track portions are linear and parallel ...