ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,525, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to KEYENCE Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Code reader" was invented by Hiroomi Ohori (Osaka, Japan), Taichi Tajika (Osaka, Japan), Hideaki Miyoshi (Osaka, Japan) and Hiroyuki Morita (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A code reader includes an illumination section, an imaging unit having a Scheimpflug optical system, a control unit that executes decoding processing on the code attached to a workpiece based on an image output from the imaging unit, and a housing that stores the illumination section, the imaging unit, and the control unit and has a light receiving window. The light receiving wind...