US Patent Issued to Banner Engineering on June 10 for "Photoelectric sensor boresighting improvement" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,359, issued on June 10, was assigned to Banner Engineering Corp. (Minneapolis).

"Photoelectric sensor boresighting improvement" was invented by John Alyn Stecker (Maple Lake, Minn.), Timothy Stuart Gardner (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Eric Karl Lindmark (Shoreview, Minn.) and Begad Gamal Elmelligy (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor device having a sensor housing and a printed circuit board coupled to the sensor housing. A light emitting device is coupled to the printed circuit board. The light emitting device has an emitter face defining an emission face area. An aperture plate is coupled to the sensor housing, the apertu...