Y10S 209/938
Illuminating means facilitating visual inspection
Y10S209/938 (Illuminating means facilitating visual inspection) appears on 69 US grants and 15 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in Y10S- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- 4 Nov 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Image processing methods and systems for training a machine learning model to predict illumination conditions for different positions relative to a scene4 Nov 2025US 12,462,191 B27 Sensing Software
- Optical type granule sorting machine5 May 2015US 9,024,223 B2Satake Corporation
- Optical granular material-sorting apparatus utilizing piezoelectric valve16 Sep 2014US 8,833,566 B2Mechano Transformer Corporation
- Apparatus for inspecting and sorting articles traveling on a conveyor9 Sep 2014US 8,827,082 B2Montrose Technologies Inc.
- Piezoelectric valve and optical granular material-sorting apparatus utilizing such piezoelectric valve4 Mar 2014US 8,662,312 B2Mechano Transformer Corporation
- Image processing methods and systems for training a machine learning model to predict illumination conditions for different positions relative to a scene6 Jul 2023US 2023/0214708 A17 Sensing Software
- Optical Type Granule Sorting Machine19 Mar 2015US 2015/0076042 A1Satake Corporation
- Optical granular material-sorting apparatus utilizing piezoelectric valve3 Oct 2013US 2013/0256200 A1Mechano Transformer Corporation
- Apparatus for inspecting and sorting articles traveling on a conveyor12 Apr 2012US 2012/0085686 A1Montrose Technologies Inc.
- Piezoelectric valve and optical granular material-sorting apparatus utilizing such piezoelectric valve24 Nov 2011US 2011/0284431 A1Mechano Transformer Corporation
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- Plastic container sorting system and method85US 5,443,164 ASimco/Ramic Corporation · 1995
- Automated high-throughput seed sample processing system and method81US 6,706,989 B2Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. · 2004
- Scrap sorting system63US 5,676,256 AHuron Valley Steel Corporation · 1997
- Determination of characteristics of material61US 7,262,380 B1Titech Visionsort AS · 2007