ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,048, issued on June 17, was assigned to SIGVARIS AG (St. Gallen, Switzerland).
"Electronic tape measure" was invented by Andri Bargetzi (Zurich), Daniel Kormann (Kreuzlingen, Switzerland), Serder Tutal (Ofterdingen, Germany), Anders Widgren (Taby, Sweden), Bernhard H Tinz (Reutlingen, Germany) and Teresa Mandl (Zurich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic tape measure for measuring a body part includes a housing having a tape outlet opening, a tape drum rotatably mounted in the housing around an axis of rotation, and a tape having length markings attached with an inner end to the tape drum, windable thereon and extendable out ...