ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,282, issued on March 17, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).
"Apparatus and method for inspecting a glass sheet" was invented by Tae-hun Han (Asan-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for inspecting an edge of a glass sheet are disclosed. The apparatus includes an optical system including a light source arranged to illuminate an edge portion of a glass sheet in a direction oblique to the glass sheet and a camera arranged to take an image of the edge portion, and an image processing device configured to process an image of the glass sheet received from the camera to detect an edge defect of...