US Patent Issued to MICRO-EPSILON Optronic on Sept. 1 for "Optical distance sensor with closed-loop exposure control and corresponding method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,866, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to MICRO-EPSILON Optronic GmbH (Langebrueck, Germany).

"Optical distance sensor with closed-loop exposure control and corresponding method" was invented by Steffen Prusseit (Dresden, Germany) and Lars Tobeschat (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical distance sensor with closed-loop exposure control comprises a light source that generates and guides an illumination light beam to a measured object. A detector detects a measuring light beam caused by reflection of the illumination light beam at the measured object. A measurement controller controls the detector during detection o...