ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,927, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Image augmentation techniques for automated visual inspection" was invented by Al Patrick Goodwin (Dunleer, Ireland), Joseph Peter Bernacki (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Graham F. Milne (Ventura, Calif.), Thomas Clark Pearson (Newbury Park, Calif.), Aman Mahendra Jain (Newbury Park, Calif.), Jordan Ray Fine (Ventura, Calif.), Kenneth E. Hampshire (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Aik Jun Tan (Boston), Osvaldo Perez Varela (Guaynabo, Puerto Rico) and Nishant Mukesh Gadhvi (Camarillo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques facilitate the development of a...