US Patent Issued to Banner Engineering on July 14 for "Triangulation sensor" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,150, issued on July 14, was assigned to Banner Engineering Corp. (Minneapolis).

"Triangulation sensor" was invented by Timothy S. Gardner (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Ilija Milosevic (Minnetonka, Minn.), Darin Dewayne Wampler (Prior Lake, Minn.) and Jeremy Eickhoff (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor device has a metal sensor housing with a housing base coupled to a frame base of a metal optical frame. A device mounting plate is orthogonal to the frame base. A securing device secures an optical communication device to the device mounting plate. A barrel mounting channel has first and second sidewalls, each extending ob...