ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,179, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).
"Offline troubleshooting and development for automated visual inspection stations" was invented by Graham F. Milne (Ventura, Calif.), Thomas C. Pearson (Newbury Park, Calif.) and Joseph Peter Bernacki (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for replicating performance of an automated visual inspection (AVI) station, a mimic AVI station that performs one or more AVI functions of the AVI station is constructed. One or more container images are captured by an imaging system of the AVI station while a container is illuminated by an illum...