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US 11,237,541 B2Granted
Crafting apparatus assemblies, systems, devices, kits, mechanisms and methodologies for utilizing the same
AssigneeCricut, Inc.
InventorsJeremy Burton Crystal, Sterling Kingdon, Korey Curtis, Henry F. Haskell, Jr., Biju Kumar Vasudevan
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Abstract
A tool including a tool surface and further including coding indicia linked, at least indirectly, with the surface of the tool, the coding indicia capable of being detected by a sensor, the coding indicia functioning as a pointer to information relating to said tool or its use.
Claims11
A method of operating a tool, the method comprising:
- detecting coding indicia from a surface of a tool and extracting information therefrom relating to said tool or its use;
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- adjusting a method of operation of a machine connected to said tool based on the information extracted from the coding indicia,
- wherein detecting the coding indicia from the surface of the tool comprises receiving, by a sensor aligned in signal-receiving communication with a circumferential band of the surface of the tool, a signal from a non-rounded flat surface portion of the circumferential band of the surface of the tool.
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