US Patent Issued to Breitmeier Messtechnik on Nov. 3 for "Method for optically measuring technical surfaces, and device for carrying out the method" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,117, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Breitmeier Messtechnik GmbH (Ettlingen, Germany).

"Method for optically measuring technical surfaces, and device for carrying out the method" was invented by Mark Alexander Weber (Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for optically measuring technical surfaces using a confocal sensor, light is directed onto a sample surface to be measured via an optical system that contains an illumination mask, a sensor matrix, a beam splitter for combining illumination beam and detection beam paths, and imaging optics. The mask has transparent and non-transparent or slightly trans...