US Patent Issued to SICK on Oct. 6 for "Detection apparatus for identifying an object transported by a conveying device" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,112, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to SICK AG (Waldkirch, Germany).

"Detection apparatus for identifying an object transported by a conveying device" was invented by Frank Schutz (Rheinhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a detection apparatus, in particular a code reader, comprising an identification unit for identifying an object transported by a conveying device, in particular a continuous conveyor, further in particular a roller conveyor, characterized in that the detection apparatus has at least a first microphone and is configured to detect the object acoustically, in particular during transpo...