US Patent Issued to Symbotic Canada on March 17 for "Cased goods inspection and method therefor" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,181, issued on March 17, was assigned to Symbotic Canada ULC (Canada).

"Cased goods inspection and method therefor" was invented by Simon Tremblay (Lafontaine, Canada) and Christian Simon (Laval, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A logistics imaging module, for reading logistic iconography on containers of goods of different sizes, including a frame, a conveyor coupled to the frame to transport each container through the frame at a predetermined continuous throughput rate, at least one source of illumination connected to the frame and configured to illuminate the container with diffuse light, at least one camera, with a fixed de...