US Patent Issued to ATS on Oct. 20 for "Systems and methods for feeding workpieces to a manufacturing line" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,455, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ATS Corp. (Cambridge, Canada).

"Systems and methods for feeding workpieces to a manufacturing line" was invented by Stanley Kleinikkink (Cambridge, Canada), Steven Wardell (Cambridge, Canada) and Michael Tze-Chun Chow (Cambridge, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods and systems for feeding workpieces to a manufacturing line are provided. An example method involves operating at least one processor to: receive, from at least one image device proximal to a bowl feeder, a sequence of images of workpieces within the bowl feeder; determine a flow velocity of the workpiec...