ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,954, issued on May 19, was assigned to AIVEX Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).
"Apparatus for inspecting the appearance of products" was invented by Seokmin Yun (Anyang-si, South Korea) and Edam Kim (Goyang-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an apparatus for inspecting an appearance of a product. The apparatus may include: a reference camera for capturing an object in a reference direction; and a plurality of auxiliary cameras for capturing the object in a plurality of auxiliary directions different from the reference direction and the plurality of auxiliary cameras may be arranged in a shape in which the plu...