US Patent Issued to FRINGE METROLOGY on Oct. 20 for "Structured light autocollimator" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,648, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to FRINGE METROLOGY LLC (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Structured light autocollimator" was invented by Joel David Berkson (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for measurement of reflective and transparent surfaces, including a light source for generating a light pattern. The system further includes a group of primary optical elements optically coupled to the light source and the optical surface for converting the light pattern into angularly encoded light and directing it to the optical surface. The optical surface reflects the angularly encoded light back toward the primary optical elements...