Today’s Trademark – COGNEX CORPORATION

Robert J Shillman was the founder of Cognex Corporation. He founded it in the year 1981. He was a lecturer in human visual perception at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It has its headquarter in Natick, Massachusetts, USA and its offices are spread across 20 countries. It is an American manufacturer of machine vision systems, software and sensors used in automated manufacturing. These are used to inspect and identify parts, detect defects, verify product assembly and guide assembly robots.

In early 1980s it started exploring commercial applications of machine vision. In-sight, VisionPro software and Dataman are part of the company’s portfolio. In-sight is a vision system that combines a camera, software and processor into one compact unit. Optical character recognition, assembly verification and defect detection are few complex in-line inspection which the system can solve. It tracks items by reading 1D and 2D data matrix code

The trademark of this company was registered in USPTO bearing registration number  1390557 on April 22, 1986.