US Patent Issued to KEYENCE on July 21 for "Optical information reading device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,384, issued on July 21, was assigned to KEYENCE Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical information reading device" was invented by Takayuki Ikeda (Osaka, Japan), Koji Takahashi (Osaka, Japan) and Taku Kawai (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The optical information reading device includes an imaging unit, a reading unit, a housing, a grip portion, a push button, a first light-emitting unit, and a control unit. The imaging unit captures images in a predetermined direction, and the reading unit reads information from the images generated by imaging. The housing has the imaging unit and the reading unit arranged inside, and has a firs...