US Patent Issued on April 15 for "System and method for tracking a moving element in a conveyor system" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,598, issued on April 15.

"System and method for tracking a moving element in a conveyor system" was invented by Roger Hogan (Cambridge, Canada), Steve Aikens (Cambridge, Canada), John Ditner (Cambridge, Canada) and Albert Kleinikkink (Cambridge, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for tracking a location of a moving element on a conveyor system. The system including: magnetic sensors; a magnetic encoder strip that is readable by the magnetic sensors; and a processor for receiving and processing the sensor readings to determine a location of the moving element. The method including: sensing a current location of t...