ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,325, issued on March 3.

"Apparatus providing repeatable registration by aligning objects to be imaged" was invented by S Amirdin Badri (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aligning apparatuses with a set of guides that form at least one imaging region are provided. The guides contain edges for aligning an object to be imaged, where the object is placed in the imaging region. The aligning apparatuses may comprise multiple imaging regions for imaging multiple objects and may also comprise a guard member and a color check guide member. In some examples, the aligning apparatus may be used with a scanner that captures images of the obj...