ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,054, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to UnitX Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Configurable light source for machine vision" was invented by Yen-Chia Chu (San Jose, Calif.), Taylor M. Parker (San Bruno, Calif.), Anirudh Shankar (San Jose, Calif.) and Jaideep Singh Chavan (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feature inspection lighting system comprises a body including an inner surface, the inner surface having facets defined therein. A PCB substrate formed of a ductile material is mounted to the inner surface of the body. The PCB substrate comprises segments corresponding to the facets of the inner surface of the body....