US Patent Issued to Motus on Feb. 24 for "Apparatus and method for automated inspection of molded pulp and other batch-produced products" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,711, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Motus LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Apparatus and method for automated inspection of molded pulp and other batch-produced products" was invented by Roger Johnston (Greenville, S.C.), Matt Job (Greenville, S.C.), Gregory Bruns (Greenville, S.C.) and Blaine Wallace (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A visual inspection system is integrated within a pulp molding process to identify holes, tears, and discoloration of molded products based upon front- and/or back-lit images captured by one or more cameras that have been calibrated to distinguish, on a pixel-by-pixel basis, the aforementione...