US Patent Issued to Datalogic IP Tech on Dec. 16 for "Sensor system and method to detect overlapping objects" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,213, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Datalogic IP Tech S.r.l. (Bologna, Italy).

"Sensor system and method to detect overlapping objects" was invented by Paolo Tosato (Bologna, Italy) and Gianluca Sirigu (Cagliari, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including at least one apparatus that measures thicknesses of objects. The apparatus includes a first emitter, a second emitter, a first receiver, and a second receiver. The first emitter and the second receiver are positioned diagonally opposed across a plane, and the second emitter and the first receiver are positioned diagonally opposed across the plane. The first receiver...