Patent 6928029 was granted and assigned to LG on August, 2005 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A measuring apparatus includes a housing with a retractable tape, a waveform range finder, and a laser pointer disposed within the housing. The retractable tape includes indicia corresponding to a distance. A save button is further disposed on the housing, wherein upon the depression of the save button, the distance measured by waveform range finder is saved to a memory. A display on the housing indicates the dimension measured by the waveform range finder.