US Patent Issued to MITUTOYO on May 27 for "Position detection system, position detection method, and three-dimensional geometry measurement system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,266, issued on May 27, was assigned to MITUTOYO Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Position detection system, position detection method, and three-dimensional geometry measurement system" was invented by Tomohiro Kiire (Tokyo) and Kazuhiko Hidaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position detection system includes: a plurality of distance detection apparatuses that generate distance data indicating distances to a plurality of positions on the object by detecting light reflected by the object in a predetermined three-dimensional space; an object identification part that identifies the object included in one or more pieces of distance dat...