ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,166, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to KAPITO INC. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Flexible and intuitive system for configuring automated visual inspection system" was invented by Feng-Tso Sun (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yi-Ting Yeh (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Feng-Yu Sun (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jyun-Tang Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Rong-Hua Chang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Meng-Tse Shen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible and intuitive system is disclosed, and is disposed to be coupled to at least one camera, at least one robotic arm and a host electronic device of an AVI system. During a normal operation of the system, a configuration parameter...