US Patent Issued to COGNEX on Jan. 13 for "Systems and methods for detecting and addressing issue classifications for object sorting" (Michigan, Tennessee, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,991, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to COGNEX Corp. (Natick, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for detecting and addressing issue classifications for object sorting" was invented by Shane LaChappelle (South Lyon, Mich.), Julie Juhyun Lym (Somerville, Mass.) and John Jeffrey Link (Mount Juliet, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for improving sorting and routing of objects, including in sorting systems. Characteristic dimensional data for one or more objects with common barcode information can be compared to dimensional data of another object with the common barcode informat...