US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on March 18 for "Replacement part validation systems and methods" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,620, issued on March 18, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Replacement part validation systems and methods" was invented by John W. Henderson (St. Paul, Minn.), Michael E. O'Brien (White Bear Lake, Minn.), Esther S. Jeong (St. Paul, Minn.), Matthew D. Moore (Lake Elmo, Minn.) and Andrew W. Long (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A replacement part validation system is presented that includes a scanning system that scans a received part and provides the scan results of the received part. The system also includes a part recognition module that, based on the received scan results of the recei...