US Patent Issued to Renishaw on Aug. 12 for "Measuring device with protection member having conduit for light beam and stream of air and method" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,734, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Renishaw PLC (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain).

"Measuring device with protection member having conduit for light beam and stream of air and method" was invented by Harry Alan Leafe (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protection member for an optical measurement device, such as a break-beam tool setting device for a machine tool. The protection member includes a conduit through which light and air can pass. The conduit is configured such that, in use, a beam of light is passed through the conduit along an optical axis and a stream of air is guided out of the conduit along a...