US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Nov. 18 for "Systems and methods for vision based counting" (Minnesota, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,278, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for vision based counting" was invented by Ben Whittier (St. Peter, Minn.), Eric Holland (Lake Crystal, Minn.), Dave Lang (Commerce, Mich.) and Kevin Detert (Fairmont, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are image based counting systems and methods. Image based counting systems and methods employ one or more imaging devices (e.g., one or more color cameras) and one or more illumination devices (e.g., one or more illumination sources to provide variable and/or dynamic lighting). In some examples, the image based counting ...