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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 1987
Filed:
Dec. 21, 1984
Applicant:
Inventors:
Teresa Rostkowski, New Britain, CT (US);
Hava V Zernik, Unionville, CT (US);
Joseph Sarcia, Tolland, CT (US);
Richard L Ginga, Southbridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
The Gerber Scientific Instrument Company, South Windsor, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B / ; G05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
250202 ; 318577 ;
Abstract
A line following system comprising a matrix generating optical scanning device which produces a matrix representing a portion of a line being followed and a computer which locates points on said line from said matrixes and directs the optical scanning device to proceed along the line based on a course indicated by vectors between previously located points.