ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,116, issued on April 21, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio) and Oliver Crispin Robotics Ltd. (Altrincham, Great Britain).

"Inspection systems and methods employing directional light for enhanced imaging" was invented by Vamshi Krishna Reddy Kommareddy (Bangalore, India), Biswajit Medhi (Bangalore, India), Sandeep Kumar (Bangalore, India), Byron Andrew Pritchard (Loveland, Ohio), Andrew Crispin Graham (Badminton, Great Britain) and Peter John Nisbet (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection system and related methods that employ directional light for enhanced imaging are provided. The ins...