ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,346, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Renishaw PLC (Wotton-Under-Edge, Great Britain).
"Measurement method" was invented by John Charles Ould (Backwell, Great Britain) and Rose Crossland (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining a form measurement for a curved feature of an artefact. The method includes a positioning apparatus relatively moving the artefact and a measurement device relative along a curved path in a first direction, to obtain a first set of data points along the surface of the curved feature, and the positioning apparatus relatively moving the artefact and the measurement device ...