US Patent Issued to ENCORE AUTOMATION on Feb. 17 for "Object inspection system and method for inspecting an object" (Michigan, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,662, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ENCORE AUTOMATION LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Object inspection system and method for inspecting an object" was invented by Jacob Nathaniel Allen (Shelby Township, Mich.), Zhipeng Liang (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Brandon David See (West Bloomfield, Mich.) and Frank Damacio Luna (Henderson, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object inspection system and a method for detecting defects which utilizes a plurality of cameras and lights to capture images of a portion of an object and which uses the captured images to determine the presence of a defect upon a surface, such as surface, of the objec...