ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,189, issued on March 17, was assigned to Renishaw PLC (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain).
"Articulated member" 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 including an articulated joint having: first and second bodies which can be locked together in a plurality of different angular orientations about a first axis; the first body including a prop which is actuatable by a motor between a retracted configuration at which the first and second bodies are in their locked state, and an extended config...