US Patent Issued to HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER on March 24 for "Interferometric dual-comb distance measuring device and measuring method" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,002, issued on March 24, was assigned to HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Interferometric dual-comb distance measuring device and measuring method" was invented by Thomas Jensen (Rorschach, Switzerland) and Frank Pryzgodda (Lindau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An opto-electronic dual-comb interferometric distance measuring method and device wherein a signal comb is chromatically divided into a target signal comb and a non-target signal comb at a emission position, preferably by an optical interleaver in a measurement probe of the device. Only the target signal comb serves as a free beam emitted to ...