ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,973, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Shape measuring system" was invented by Yoshitaka Miyatani (Tokyo), Tatsuji Ashitani (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryuta Okamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Shape measuring systems are disclosed. In one example, a shape measuring system includes a light source part with a light source, a waveform control lens, and a scan mechanism. It also includes light receiving parts that each include a light receiving lens on which reflected light reflected by the measurement target among measurement light from the light source part is inciden...