ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,623, issued on July 21, was assigned to Banner Engineering Corp. (Minneapolis).
"Self-contained range detection systems with reconfigurable chatter-mitigated output indication" was invented by Chunmei Kang (Minneapolis), Amanda Nelson (Minneapolis), Brad Ragozzino (Minneapolis), William Theunissen (Minneapolis), Arthur Padget (Minneapolis) and Robb Weidemann (Minneapolis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and associated methods relate to detection systems with chatter-mitigated output indication. In an illustrative example, a sensor may generate a detection signal as a function of a physical relationship of a target to the sens...