US Patent Issued to Medline Industries on Aug. 12 for "Systems, apparatus and methods for properly locating items" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,345, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Medline Industries LP (Northfield, Ill.).

"Systems, apparatus and methods for properly locating items" was invented by Jared Rosinski (Gurnee, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and apparatus are disclosed for properly using and locating object retention wands via the use of at least one sensor located on or in the wand body for determining when the wand is capable of properly scanning a target area. In one form, a proximity sensor is used. In another form a motion sensor is used. In still other forms, both a proximity sensor and motion sensor are used. In some forms, the wand...