US Patent Issued to Cognex on July 22 for "System and method for auto-focusing a vision system camera on barcodes" (American, German, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,361, issued on July 22, was assigned to Cognex Corp. (Natick, Mass.).

"System and method for auto-focusing a vision system camera on barcodes" was invented by Ivan A. Bachelder (Hillsbobough, N.C.), Chen Gao (Wayland, Mass.), Francisco Azcona Guerrero (Aachen, Germany), Jose Fernandez Dorado (Vaals, Netherlands), Esther Oteo Lozano (Aachen, Germany) and Andreas Weber (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides a system and method for detecting and acquiring one or more in-focus images of one or more barcodes within the field of view of an imaging device. A measurement process measures depth-of-field of bar...