US Patent Issued to NIPPON SHOKUBAI on Jan. 13 for "Distance measuring device and method for measuring distance" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,640, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NIPPON SHOKUBAI Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Distance measuring device and method for measuring distance" was invented by Toshiya Nishiguchi (Himeji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance measuring device includes a measuring member holding a length measuring instrument and at least one rail member (base member) on which the measuring member is movably disposed. When a straight line parallel to a direction in which the measuring member disposed on the base member moves is defined as a reference line, an angle formed by a straight line parallel to an axial length direction of a reaction t...