US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on May 12 for "Vision sensor infeed system" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,857, issued on May 12, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Vision sensor infeed system" was invented by JonPaul Laskis (Simpsonville, S.C.), J. Mark Nunn (Simpsonville, S.C.) and Wayne J. Ryan (Simpsonville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for optimizing flow of a plurality of products along a conveyor includes a conveyor drive connected with the respect to the conveyor, the conveyor drive configured to modulate the speed of the conveyor. A camera positioned relative to the products on the conveyor. A processing unit is connected with respect to the camera and the conveyor drive, the pro...