ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,476, issued on July 29, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Compact-cross direction C-frame scanner" was invented by Michael Hughes (North Vancouver, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compact C-shaped scanner employs at least two sensors and has a mechanism to standardize or calibrate the sensors. The upper and lower elongated beams of the C-frame include a mid-beam sensor and an outer beam sensor. The scanner can monitor the entire width of a continuous sheet by advancing the scanner back and forth along a scanning distance that is only about half that of the sheet width thereby minimizing the requ...