US Patent Issued to UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE on May 13 for "Vision-enhanced photocell system for package sorting" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,363, issued on May 13, was assigned to UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE (Washington).

"Vision-enhanced photocell system for package sorting" was invented by George Coupar (Leesburg, Va.), Jeffrey A. Fox (Alexandria, Va.), James Whipple (Greenbelt, Md.) and Gabriel DiFurio (Stevenson, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting delivery items includes a hardware processor that is operably connected to a light detector and a camera positioned at a sensing location along a moving surface that moves a delivery item. The processor may be configured to perform operations that include receiving a light status signal fro...