ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,301, issued on July 29, was assigned to FITESA NAOTECIDOS S.A. (Porto Alegre, Brazil).
"Device and method for detecting the presence of abnormalities in a reel" was invented by Alexandre Barcellos Ramos (Porto Alegre, Brazil) and Rodrigo Nunes Da Silva (Porto Alegre, Brazil).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for detecting the presence of abnormalities in a reel includes an image capturing module for capturing images of the reel including at least one camera, a displacer for displacing the reel in a field of view of the at least one camera, an analyzer for analyzing the images captured by the at least one camera and detecting the...