ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,859, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GMBH (Traunreut, Germany).
"Assembly for position measurement" was invented by Dirk Geyermann (Siegsdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly includes a support and a scale disposed thereon extending in a longitudinal direction and having a measuring graduation disposed for position measurement. A first fastening device of the support is configured to support a first cross section of the scale at a first position in such a manner that it is freely movable in the longitudinal direction relative to the support and fixed in a transverse direction perpendicula...