ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,163, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Displacement sensor, and displacement measurement system using displacement sensor" was invented by Yoshie Takahashi (Osaka, Japan), Kazuto Fukuda (Osaka, Japan) and Takafumi Okuma (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A displacement sensor includes a first emission particles layer provided to be contactable with a measurement object, and in which first emission particles that emit light at a first wavelength by excitation energy are distributed over at least a one-dimensional extent, a second emission particles layer i...