US Patent Issued to Renishaw on March 17 for "Measurement probe" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,190, issued on March 17, was assigned to Renishaw PLC (Wotton-Under-Edge, Great Britain).

"Measurement probe" was invented by Jamie John Buckingham (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain), Derek Marshall (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain) and John Charles Ould (Wotton-under-Edge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of communicating information to a measurement probe mounted on a coordinate positioning machine includes encoding the information as one or more of a plurality of characteristic movements of the probe, controlling the machine to impart the movement(s) to the probe, detecting the movement(s) at the probe, and ...