ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,921, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to KEYENCE Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Industrial camera and industrial camera system" was invented by Akira Kinoshita (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial camera 2 includes an interface unit 27 capable of supplying power to an external illuminator, a PoE power supply input unit 24 to which a PoE voltage is input from a PoE power supply 6B, a step-down circuit 25 that steps down the PoE voltage input to the PoE power supply input unit 24, a power supply selector 26 for supplying one of a voltage generated by the step-down circuit 25 and the PoE voltage to the external illuminator,...