US Patent Issued to Lightning Source on Sept. 8 for "Book binding mismatch detection system and method" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,660, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Lightning Source LLC (LaVergne, Tenn.).

"Book binding mismatch detection system and method" was invented by Zoran Belevski (LaVergne, Tenn.), Joshua Sanders (LaVergne, Tenn.), Danny Howell (LaVergne, Tenn.), John Kwiatkowski (LaVergne, Tenn.), Kenneth McDonald (LaVergne, Tenn.), Joel Brawner (LaVergne, Tenn.) and Kevin Smith (LaVergne, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mismatch detection system comprising a book block assembly line, a plurality of book block sensors, a case cover assembly line, and an infeed sorter. The book block assembly line may be operable to output conforming book blo...