US Patent Issued to Mitutoyo on July 14 for "Machine vision system utilizing autofocus and inspection processes" (Washington, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,963, issued on July 14, was assigned to Mitutoyo Corp. (Kanagawa-Ken, Japan).

"Machine vision system utilizing autofocus and inspection processes" was invented by Paul Gerard Gladnick (Seattle), Dmitri Anatolyevich Tsyboulski (Seattle), Jerry R. Mccormick (Mill Creek, Wash.) and Mark Lawrence Delaney (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine vision system includes a vision components portion and an inspection portion. The inspection portion includes a variable focal length (VFL) lens, a VFL lens controller, an inspection portion light source, an inspection portion objective lens, and an inspection portion camera. The ...