US Patent Issued to Surface Systems and Instruments on Dec. 16 for "Surface profile measuring apparatus and method having no minimum speed requirement" (Kansas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,050, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Surface Systems and Instruments Inc. (Larkspur, Calif.).

"Surface profile measuring apparatus and method having no minimum speed requirement" was invented by Ethan M. Grother (Manhattan, Kan.), Brent L. Bergman (Manhattan, Kan.) and Dennis P. Scott (Larkspur, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A profiler arranged to be used on a host vehicle. The profiler is capable of (a) receiving data collected by the profiler while traveling over a surface and (b) generating a surface profile using the data collected with no minimum speed requirement. Since there is no minimum speed requirement, the prof...