US Patent Issued to Cognex on Jan. 20 for "Illumination line generation by double-duty diffusion" (German, Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,828, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Cognex Corp. (Natick, Mass.).

"Illumination line generation by double-duty diffusion" was invented by Thomas Ruhnau (Herbolzheim, Germany), Khaled Aljasem (Bad Krozingen, Germany), Esther Oteo Lozano (Vaal, Netherlands) and John F. Filhaber (Norwich, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system includes a light source operable to produce input light, a linear diffuser, and a reflector. The light source, linear diffuser, and reflector are arranged and configured to direct the input light from the light source to the linear diffuser, project diffused light from the linear diffuser to th...