US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on July 1 for "Alignment system and tool for visual inspection" (New York, Connecticut, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,010, issued on July 1, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Alignment system and tool for visual inspection" was invented by Ryan Elsasser (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Eric Mallery (East Hartford, Conn.), Enrico A. Romano (Dutchess, N.Y.), Jason R. Eagle (Mantorville, Minn.), James Clark Utter (Hudson, N.Y.), Daniel Ruiz (Cold Spring, N.Y.) and Joseph Scaglione (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device is provided that may be used for visually inspecting structures. In one embodiment, the imaging device includes an image capture device; and a rail system having a stationary compone...