US Patent Issued to OMRON on May 12 for "Apparatus and method for configuring and operating a laser scanner apparatus" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,239, issued on May 12, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Apparatus and method for configuring and operating a laser scanner apparatus" was invented by Takeshi Shoji (Kyoto, Japan) and Fred Schleifer (Spencer, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more types of laser scanner apparatuses perform object detection by emitting laser pulses and detecting corresponding reflected pulses by correlating a digitized detection signal against a correlation template representing a characteristic signal pulse. Regions of the digitized detection signal exhibiting high correlation with the template correspond to reflection pulses cause...