ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,004, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Wheel blank inspection device" was invented by Chin-Chia Chang (Tainan City, Taiwan), Chia-Ming Tsai (Tainan City, Taiwan), Yi-Tong Liu (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Chien-Hsun Wu (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel blank inspection device is for inspecting a wheel blank and includes a depth sensor and a computing control module electrically connected to the depth sensor. The computing control module executes a path acquisition process, a depth measurement process and a load point localization process. The path a...