US Patent Issued to Renishaw on March 25 for "Method of calibrating a surface sensing device, corresponding calibrating program for a control computer and corresponding calibration kit" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,234, issued on March 25, was assigned to Renishaw PLC (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain).

"Method of calibrating a surface sensing device, corresponding calibrating program for a control computer and corresponding calibration kit" was invented by Martin Simon Rees (Bristol, Great Britain), Andrew Geoffrey Butter (Stroud, Great Britain) and David Sven Wallace (Stroud, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface sensing device is mounted on an articulating probe head of a coordinate measuring machine. The device includes an elongate probe holder which is rotatable about an axis. An elongate sensing module includes a surface...