US Patent Issued to Cognex on Oct. 7 for "Multiple channel locating" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,968, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Cognex Corp. (Natick, Mass.).

"Multiple channel locating" was invented by Eric Moore (Boulder, Colo.), Benjamin Braker (Louisville, Colo.) and Daniel Feldkhun (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses are provided for estimating a location on an object in a three-dimensional scene. Multiple radiation patterns are produced by spatially modulating each of multiple first radiations with a distinct combination of one or more modulating structures, each first radiation having at least one of a distinct radiation path, a distinct source, a distinct source spectrum...