ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,988, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Gudeng Equipment Co. LTD. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Optical inspection system of eliminating image noise" was invented by Che-Wei Chan (Tainan City, Taiwan), Lin-Hsin Tu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Yu-Jen Su (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical inspection system of removing a pattern relevant to surface metallic texture on circuits from an image to be inspected includes a first light source module, an image forming module and an operation processor. The first light source module includes a first polarizer and a linear light source. The first polarizer has a first pol...