US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute, Toyota Jidosha on March 31 for "Systems and methods for detecting foreign metallic particles" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,878, issued on March 31, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for detecting foreign metallic particles" was invented by Matthew P. Gordon (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One form of a metallic particle detection system detects automatically, through analysis of image data from a first sensor, a foreign metallic particle in or on an active material layer of an electrode strip moving between a section and a subsequent section on a roll-to-roll coated electrode manufacturing line that manufactures a plate electrode. The system a...