US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Nov. 11 for "Inspecting sheet goods using deep learning" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,123, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Inspecting sheet goods using deep learning" was invented by Steven P. Floeder (Shoreview, Minn.), Jeffrey P. Adolf (Rochester, Minn.) and Nathaniel S. Rowekamp (Maplewood, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection system includes an inspection device having at least one image capture device. The image capture device captures image data of a sheet part passing through the inspection device. A processing unit of the inspection device provides the image data representative of the sheet part to a plurality of neural networks, where each of t...