US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on May 27 for "Measurement method and measurement device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,129, issued on May 27, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Measurement method and measurement device" was invented by Yuki Maruyama (Osaka, Japan), Taro Imagawa (Osaka, Japan), Hiroya Kusaka (Hyogo, Japan) and Akihiro Noda (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measurement method, which is performed by a measurement device that measures a displacement of a target object, includes: receiving designation of a designation point on a first image that includes the target object; setting a plurality of set points, based on the designation point; identifying a direction of a line that...