US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on April 21 for "Distance measurement device, distance measurement method, and machine tool" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,800, issued on April 21, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Distance measurement device, distance measurement method, and machine tool" was invented by Nobuo Ohata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance measurement device includes: a signal acquisition unit to acquire an electric signal based on interference light from an optical sensor device that splits sweep light having a periodically changing frequency into reference light and irradiation light to be emitted toward an object to be measured, irradiates the object with the irradiation light, generates interference light by causing the reference light to...