US Patent Issued to Sikora on March 31 for "Device and method for determining dimensional data relating to an object" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,796, issued on March 31, was assigned to Sikora AG (Bremen, Germany).

"Device and method for determining dimensional data relating to an object" was invented by Kolja Tobias Schuh (Bremen, Germany) and Hilmar Bolte (Bremen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining dimensional data of an object includes emitting terahertz radiation by a first transmitter onto a surface of the object. The terahertz radiation emitted by the first transmitter is received by a first receiver after the terahertz radiation has passed through the object. Terahertz radiation comprising a bandwidth of less than 5% of a carrier frequency...