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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2006
Applicant:
Bernard C. Kress, Neubourg, FR;
Inventor:
Bernard C. Kress, Neubourg, FR;
Assignee:
Arcus Technology, Inc., Livermore, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D 5/34 (2006.01); G01B 11/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An optical encoder uses an encoder member with one or more digital diffractive optic regions to optically manipulate an incident beam of light to extract relative displacement information of the encoder member.