US Patent Issued to Markem-Imaje on April 15 for "Method and apparatus for characterizing objects using a light-emitting array" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,493, issued on April 15, was assigned to Markem-Imaje Corp. (Keene, N.H.).

"Method and apparatus for characterizing objects using a light-emitting array" was invented by Peter W. Goodenough (Swanzey, N.H.) and Cameron Dee Dryden (West Roxbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for a light curtain system including a support frame arranged around a transport path including a product support, a light-emitting array including multiple light sources arranged along the support frame, each light source of the multiple light sources arranged along the supp...