US Patent Issued to Cognex on June 24 for "System and method for three-dimensional scan of moving objects longer than the field of view" (Massachusetts, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,435, issued on June 24, was assigned to Cognex Corp. (Natick, Mass.).

"System and method for three-dimensional scan of moving objects longer than the field of view" was invented by Ben R. Carey (Cambridge, Mass.), Andrew Parrett (Boston), Yukang Liu (Natick, Mass.) and Gilbert Chiang (West Linn, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides a system and method for using an area scan sensor of a vision system, in conjunction with an encoder or other knowledge of motion, to capture an accurate measurement of an object larger than a single field of view (FOV) of the sensor. It identifies features/edges of the object, which...