US Patent Issued to MITUTOYO on April 7 for "Small-sized measuring device and operating method of the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,996, issued on April 7, was assigned to MITUTOYO Corp. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Small-sized measuring device and operating method of the same" was invented by Mao Kikuchi (Gifu, Japan) and Tomoharu Kurata (Gifu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A small-sized measuring device includes a position detector that is provided on a main body and detects the position of an object to be measured, a timer that measures time, and a central control unit that controls overall operation. The central control unit accepts a base-point setting standby time set by a user and stores the base-point setting standby time. The central control unit measures ...