ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,445, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Itoh Denki Co. Ltd. (Kasai, Japan).
"Conveyor device and sensor for conveyor" was invented by Kazuo Itoh (Kasai, Japan), Toshiyuki Tachibana (Kasai, Japan), Kenji Inaya (Kasai, Japan) and Tomoya Matoba (Kasai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a conveyor device and a conveyor sensor capable of detecting various types of information on an object. The conveyor device that conveys the object to a predetermined conveyance place includes a conveyor sensor that detects the information of the object. The conveyor sensor includes a plurality of sensor members, and the ...