ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,465, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SMS group GmbH (Dusseldorf, Germany).
"Method and device for optically measuring a thread" was invented by Michael Hofer (Niederkruchten, Germany), Frank D'Hone (Cologne, Germany) and Christian Hollander (Niederkruchten, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device can be used for optically measuring a thread on an end of a metal pipe by at least one measuring head which is fastened to a manipulator. The measuring head is preferably freely positionable in relation to the metal pipe and has at least one optical measuring path for measuring the thread and at least one position det...