Patent 7538864 was granted and assigned to Hunter Engineering Company on May, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A vehicle wheel alignment sensor for a machine-vision vehicle wheel alignment system comprising a scanned beam camera incorporating an illumination source, a means for deflecting light emitted by the illumination source along a path within a field of view, and a detector array for receiving illumination reflected from objects within the field of view to generate an image which is representative of a region of interest within the field of view.