US Patent Issued to LMI TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 27 for "Device for determining a distance, surface thickness and optical properties of an object and related method" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,091, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to LMI TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Bumbay, Canada).

"Device for determining a distance, surface thickness and optical properties of an object and related method" was invented by Heimo Keranen (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a device for determining the position and/or optical properties of an object (2). The device comprises at least one output element (4.1) for providing light, illuminating optics (11) for directing light from the output element to the object, a light sensor (8) and imaging optics (13) for collecting light from the object to the light sensor. The device i...