US Patent Issued to Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials on Sept. 22 for "Distance measurement head and multi-target distance measurement system including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,859, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Distance measurement head and multi-target distance measurement system including the same" was invented by Seung Man Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Seong Heum Han (Daejeon, South Korea), Jeong Seok Oh (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seung Kook Ro (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a distance measurement head which includes: a reflection surface configured to reflect a part of a laser pulse transmitted from a laser light source unit toward the laser light source unit and generate a reference pulse; a beam ...