US Patent Issued to ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS on March 17 for "Anomaly detection for product quality control" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,632, issued on March 17, was assigned to ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS Ltd. (Dublin).

"Anomaly detection for product quality control" was invented by Binghao Tang (Shenzhen, China), Keyu Qi (Dongguan, China) and David Nguyen (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations include receiving an image of an object; obtaining a reconstructed image by processing the image through a ML model; obtaining a gradient difference image by comparing the image to the reconstructed image; generating an output image at least partially by suppressing non-significant regions representing non-significant anomalies from the gradient differe...