US Patent Issued to HINE AUTOMATION on Dec. 30 for "Method for improved detection of anomalous substrates in automated material-handling systems" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,726, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to HINE AUTOMATION LLC (St. Petersburg, Fla.).

"Method for improved detection of anomalous substrates in automated material-handling systems" was invented by Wei-Hua Hsiao (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Raj Subramanya (Oldsmar, Fla.) and Joseph Barraco (Lutz, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for distinguishing between tilted and multi-stacked substrates in Automated Material-Handling Systems comprising the following steps. A substrate cassette having at least one substrate is provided. The substrate cassette is positioned within the material handling system. Each substrate has a top surface a...