US Patent Issued to OMRON on May 13 for "Optical interference range sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,117, issued on May 13, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Optical interference range sensor" was invented by Yusuke Nagasaki (Kyoto, Japan), Masayuki Hayakawa (Kyoto, Japan) and Kazuya Kimura (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conversion unit converts a first electrical signal to a first distance value indicating a distance from an interferometer to a measurement target. An inclination value calculation unit calculates an inclination value based on the first distance value. A first distance value correction unit corrects the first distance value based on the inclination value. A second distance value correction ...