US Patent Issued to ISRA VISION on Dec. 16 for "Device for inspecting the surface of a transparent object, and corresponding method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,331, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ISRA VISION GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany).

"Device for inspecting the surface of a transparent object, and corresponding method" was invented by Josef Droste (Glandorf, Germany) and Jurgen Reckow (Rhede, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for inspecting a foil-type transparent object. The device has a camera and at least one light source. The light source is arranged such that the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the light source illuminates a line-shaped area of a first surface of the object from above or a second surface of the object from below. The illumination is at a predeter...