US Patent Issued to MITUTOYO on June 23 for "Small-sized measuring device and operating method of the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,251, issued on June 23, 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 photosensor, and a central control unit that controls overall operation. The photosensor is configured to function at least as an input device configured to accept a base-point setting instruction from the user. The central control unit, when accept...