US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on April 7 for "Method and system for determining a region of water clearance of a water surface" (Swiss, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,222, issued on April 7, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Method and system for determining a region of water clearance of a water surface" was invented by Stefano Marano (Zurich, Switzerland), Bruno Arsenali (Brugg, Switzerland), Deran Maas (Zurich, Switzerland), Kalevi Tervo (Espoo, Finland) and Jukka Peltola (Espoo, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for determining a region of water clearance of a water surface are disclosed. The method includes receiving image data of an image captured by a camera, determining water surface pixels of the image from the image data, determining ima...