US Patent Issued on April 14 for "Alternative light source (ALS) camera system" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,077, issued on April 14.

"Alternative light source (ALS) camera system" was invented by Kevin Thomas (Charlotte, N.C.) and Andrew Thompson (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting foreign materials comprising an alternative light source (ALS), one or more filters operationally associated with the ALS, one or more camera lenses operationally associated with the ALS and the filters, one or more processors, a computer readable memory, and a computer readable storage medium operatively associated with a computing device operatively associated with the ALS, one or more sensors operationally associated with t...