US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Sept. 30 for "Method and system for scanning a code on a transparent part" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,526, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and system for scanning a code on a transparent part" was invented by Yao-Hung Yang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Chih-Yang Chang (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Shannon Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for scanning a code on or in a transparent part, the method comprising: illuminating the code to generate a projected image of the code on a projection surface spaced from the transparent part; and machine scanning the projected image."

The patent was filed on June 8, 2023, under Application No. 18/207,225....