ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,002, issued on April 7, was assigned to Renishaw PLC (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain).
"Metrology apparatus" was invented by Andrew Geoffrey Butter (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain) and Benjamin George Hoy (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metrology apparatus includes an indexed articulated joint including: first and second relatively reorientable bodies, respectively having mutually engageable engagement elements, which can be locked together in different angular orientations about a first axis to provide a plurality of angularly indexed positions of the bodies; at least one verification sensor co...