US Patent Issued to OMRON on May 26 for "Optical interferometric range sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,586, issued on May 26, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Optical interferometric range sensor" was invented by Kazuya Kimura (Kyoto, Japan), Masayuki Hayakawa (Kyoto, Japan), Yusuke Nagasaki (Kyoto, Japan) and Seishiro Kojima (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical interferometric range sensor includes a light source that emits light with a changing wavelength, an interferometer that receives the light emitted from the light source and generates interference light based on measurement light emitted from a sensor head to a measurement target and reflected from the measurement target and reference light travel...