US Patent Issued to PIXART IMAGING on Nov. 11 for "Sensor device, automated transportation system and operating method for the same" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,695, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to PIXART IMAGING INC. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Sensor device, automated transportation system and operating method for the same" was invented by Yi-Hsien Ko (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor device, an automated transportation system and an operating method for the same are provided. The sensor device essentially includes a thermal sensor array for capturing a two-dimensional thermographic image within a sensing zone and a processing circuit for processing the image so as to obtain a thermal distribution within the sensing zone. The sensing zone is such as a cage of the automa...