US Patent Issued to DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN on May 5 for "Optical position measuring device and method for operating an optical position measuring device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,972, issued on May 5, was assigned to DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GMBH (Traunreut, Germany).

"Optical position measuring device and method for operating an optical position measuring device" was invented by Daniel Frese (Traunstein, Germany), Jannik Jens Rosenlehner-Emde (Obing, Germany) and Stefan Weis (Traunwalchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an optical position measuring device for determining the position of two objects movable relative to each other along a measuring direction, a measuring standard includes a reflective measuring scale extending along the measuring direction and having scale regions with different refle...