US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on May 26 for "Dispensing cabinet incorporating vision based counting systems and methods" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,962, issued on May 26, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc..

"Dispensing cabinet incorporating vision based counting systems and methods" was invented by Andrew Sukalski (Fairmont, Minn.), Jacob Green (Fairmont, Minn.), Gregory Abel (Fairmont, Minn.), Eric Holland (Lake Crystal, Minn.) and Cory Hainy (Fairmont, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for a dispensing cabinet incorporating an image based counting system that includes one or more imaging devices (e.g., one or more color cameras) to capture images of one or more items (e.g., pills, capsules, pharmaceutical units, items for medical use, ...