US Patent Issued to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Oct. 14 for "Non-contact detection device and detection method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,043, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Non-contact detection device and detection method thereof" was invented by Wei-Shiang Huang (Tainan, Taiwan), Tsai-Ling Kao (Tainan, Taiwan), Chun-Yi Lee (Chiayi, Taiwan) and Jhe-Ruei Li (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-contact detection method for a nut is provided. The method includes the following steps. The nut is photographed to obtain a threaded hole image of the nut. A thread area comparison between the threaded hole image and a standard threaded hole image is performed. An area difference is obtained accord...