US Patent Issued to Spraying Systems on May 26 for "Optical spray pattern imaging apparatus including permanently integrated light plane and image capture components" (Michigan, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,765, issued on May 26, was assigned to Spraying Systems Co. (Wheaton, Ill.).

"Optical spray pattern imaging apparatus including permanently integrated light plane and image capture components" was invented by Kyle M. Bade (Rockford, Mich.), Rudolf J. Schick (Forest Park, Ill.) and Philip A. McDonough (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pre-calibrated spray plane image acquisition device is described that includes, in a single fixed-form structure, both an image capture component configured to acquire an optical image of a field of view and a light plane generator configured to generate a planar light plane emitted from the pre-c...