US Patent Issued to Renishaw on July 7 for "Rotary encoder" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,689, issued on July 7, was assigned to Renishaw PLC (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain).

"Rotary encoder" was invented by Benjamin Nigel Carruthers-Watt (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain), Finlay Jonathan Evans (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain) and Matthew Damian Harrison (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of mounting rotary scale member on machine part includes: locating rotary scale member on machine part such that scale axis and axis of rotation are substantially parallel, and subsequently arranging at least a first radial adjustment device to contact both machine part and rotary scale member,...