ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,137, issued on March 25, was assigned to DIGITAL CHECK CORP. (Northbrook, Ill.).
"Film transport apparatus controller and related methods" was invented by Kurt Breish (Garden Valley, Idaho), Victor Mimken (Boise, Idaho) and Anthony Senn (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are presented for controlling a film transport apparatus of a film reel scanner. In one embodiment, a system is provided including a line scanning camera, a supply reel motor, a take-up reel motor, and a plurality of capstan motors. A control system may then be configured to receive and dynamically adjust position information from these...