ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,546, issued on March 25.
"Concatenation of machine vision inspection results" was invented by Adam Mackenzie (Fitchburg, Mass.), Neil Lobo (Westborough, Mass.) and Charles A Gouin (Providence, R.I.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vision-based product inspection system captures multiple images of each of multiple individual instances of a product as each instance passes through various phases of a production process. The system includes multiple cameras with each camera situated at a known location along a moving conveyor, conveyor belt, production line, or assembly line that moves instances of the product through various phases of ...