US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Nov. 11 for "Intersect command vision locating system and method" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,285, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Intersect command vision locating system and method" was invented by Sunny Agarwal (Franklin, Mass.) and John Anthony Cronin (Franklin, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of depositing material on an electronic substrate with a dispensing system includes acquiring images of adjacent features, assigning programmed search boxes to edges of the features, identifying programmed edges of the features, for each feature identifying an intersection point of the programmed edges, determining a centerline from the intersection point, determining a mi...