ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,096, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to VIENEX Corp. (Kagawa, Japan).
"Optical line sensor" was invented by Ryuta Watanabe (Kanonji, Japan) and Osamu Iwasaki (Kanonji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical line sensor reads an inspection object conveyed in a sub-scanning direction by a reading line L extending in a main scanning direction and includes a plurality of light-receiving lenses 11 and a plurality of light-receiving elements. The plurality of light-receiving lenses 11 are arranged along the main scanning direction. The plurality of light-receiving elements are arranged linearly along the main scanning direction, and...