ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,707, issued on March 25, was assigned to Renishaw PLC (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain).
"Manufacturing system and method" was invented by Kevyn Barry Jonas (Clevedon, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing system includes: a coordinate positioning machine having a structure moveable within a working volume of the machine, a drive arrangement for moving the structure around the working volume, and a positioning arrangement for determining the position of the structure within the working volume with a first accuracy; and a metrology arrangement to which the machine is removably couplable, such that when the mac...