US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on July 28 for "Optical measurement device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,416, issued on July 28, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical measurement device" was invented by Takanori Yamauchi (Tokyo), Junya Nishioka (Tokyo), Hiroki Goto (Tokyo) and Naoki Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical measurement device is a measurement device that measures a distance to a target using light, and includes: a split unit to split light into reference light and measurement light; an adjustment unit to split the reference light into a plurality of beams of reference light having respective different light path lengths; an interference unit to multiplex two of reflection light obtain...