US Patent Issued to MITUTOYO on Dec. 2 for "Machine vision system with objective lens and collision protection" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,448, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to MITUTOYO Corp. (Kanagawa-Ken, Japan).

"Machine vision system with objective lens and collision protection" was invented by Isaiah Freerksen (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine vision inspection system includes a movement portion comprising one or more movement mechanisms configured to adjust a relative position between an optical assembly portion and a workpiece. The optical assembly portion includes a camera that receives imaging light transmitted along an imaging optical path and provides images of a surface of the workpiece, and an objective lens that inputs the imaging li...